[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 155 (Friday, November 9, 2001)]
[House]
[Pages H7962-H7986]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 2330

  Mr. BONILLA submitted the following conference report and statement 
on the bill (H.R. 2330) ``making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other 
purposes'':

                  Conference Report (H. Rept. 107-275)

       The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the 
     two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 
     2330) ``making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural 
     Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
     Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
     2002, and for other purposes'', having met, after full and 
     free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to 
     their respective Houses as follows:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate, and agree to the same with an 
     amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the matter stricken and inserted by said 
     amendment, insert:
       That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money 
     in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for Agriculture, 
     Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
     Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
     2002, and for other purposes, namely:

                                TITLE I

                         AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS

                 Production, Processing, and Marketing

                        Office of the Secretary

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of 
     Agriculture, and not to exceed $75,000 for employment under 5 
     U.S.C. 3109, $2,992,000: Provided, That not to exceed $11,000 
     of this amount shall be available for official reception and 
     representation expenses, not otherwise provided for, as 
     determined by the Secretary: Provided further, That none of 
     the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this 
     Act may be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel 
     of the Department of Agriculture to carry out section 
     793(c)(1)(C) of Public Law 104-127: Provided further, That 
     none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to 
     enforce section 793(d) of Public Law 104-127.

                          Executive Operations


                            chief economist

       For necessary expenses of the Chief Economist, including 
     economic analysis, risk assessment, cost-benefit analysis, 
     energy and new uses, and the functions of the World 
     Agricultural Outlook Board, as authorized by the Agricultural 
     Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622g), and including 
     employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) 
     of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not 
     to exceed $5,000 is for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
     $7,704,000.


                       national appeals division

       For necessary expenses of the National Appeals Division, 
     including employment pursuant to the second sentence of 
     section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of 
     which not to exceed $25,000 is for employment under 5 U.S.C. 
     3109, $12,869,000.


                 office of budget and program analysis

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Budget and Program 
     Analysis, including employment pursuant to the second 
     sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 
     U.S.C. 2225), of which not to exceed $5,000 is for employment 
     under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $7,041,000.

                Office of the Chief Information Officer

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief 
     Information Officer, including employment pursuant to the 
     second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 
     (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not to exceed $10,000 is for 
     employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $10,029,000.


                      common computing environment

       For necessary expenses to acquire a Common Computing 
     Environment for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, 
     the Farm and Foreign Agricultural Service and Rural 
     Development mission areas for information technology, 
     systems, and services, $59,369,000, to remain available until 
     expended, for the capital asset acquisition of shared 
     information technology systems, including services as 
     authorized by 7 U.S.C. 6915-16 and 40 U.S.C. 1421-28: 
     Provided, That obligation of these funds shall be consistent 
     with the Department of Agriculture Service Center 
     Modernization Plan of the county-based agencies, and shall be 
     with the concurrence of the Department's Chief Information 
     Officer.

                 Office of the Chief Financial Officer

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Financial 
     Officer, including employment pursuant to the second sentence 
     of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), 
     of which not to exceed $10,000 is for employment under 5 
     U.S.C. 3109, $5,384,000: Provided, That the Chief Financial 
     Officer shall actively market and expand cross-servicing 
     activities of the National Finance Center.

          Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Assistant Secretary for Administration to carry out the 
     programs funded by this Act, $647,000.

        Agriculture Buildings and Facilities and Rental Payments


                     (including transfers of funds)

       For payment of space rental and related costs pursuant to 
     Public Law 92-313, including authorities pursuant to the 1984 
     delegation of authority from the Administrator of General 
     Services to the Department of Agriculture under 40 U.S.C. 
     486, for programs and activities of the Department which are 
     included in this Act, and for alterations and other actions 
     needed for the Department and its agencies to consolidate 
     unneeded space into configurations suitable for release to 
     the Administrator of General Services, and for the operation, 
     maintenance, improvement, and repair of Agriculture 
     buildings, $187,647,000, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture may transfer a 
     share of that agency's appropriation made available by this 
     Act to this appropriation, or may transfer a share of this 
     appropriation to that agency's appropriation to cover the 
     costs of new or replacement space for such agency, but such 
     transfers shall not exceed 5 percent of the funds made 
     available for space rental and related costs to or from this 
     account.

                     Hazardous Materials Management


                     (including transfers of funds)

       For necessary expenses of the Department of Agriculture, to 
     comply with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
     Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., and 
     the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 6901 et 
     seq., $15,665,000, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That appropriations and funds available herein to 
     the Department for Hazardous Materials Management may be 
     transferred to any agency of the Department for its use in 
     meeting all requirements pursuant to the above Acts on 
     Federal and non-Federal lands.

                      Departmental Administration


                     (including transfers of funds)

       For Departmental Administration, $37,079,000, to provide 
     for necessary expenses for management support services to 
     offices of the Department and for general administration and 
     disaster management of the Department, repairs and 
     alterations, and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses 
     not otherwise provided for and necessary for the practical 
     and efficient work of the Department, including employment 
     pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the 
     Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not to exceed 
     $10,000 is for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided, That 
     this appropriation shall be reimbursed from applicable 
     appropriations in this Act for travel expenses incident to 
     the holding of hearings as required by 5 U.S.C. 551-558.


              outreach for socially disadvantaged farmers

       For grants and contracts pursuant to section 2501 of the 
     Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 
     U.S.C. 2279), $3,243,000, to remain available until expended.

     Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations


                     (including transfers of funds)

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations to carry out 
     the programs funded by this Act, including programs involving 
     intergovernmental affairs and liaison within the executive 
     branch, $3,718,000: Provided, That these funds may be 
     transferred to agencies of the Department of Agriculture 
     funded by this Act to maintain personnel at the agency level: 
     Provided further, That no other funds appropriated to the 
     Department by this Act shall be available to the Department 
     for support of activities of congressional relations.

                        Office of Communications

       For necessary expenses to carry out services relating to 
     the coordination of programs involving public affairs, for 
     the dissemination of agricultural information, and the 
     coordination of information, work, and programs authorized by 
     Congress in the Department, $8,894,000, including employment 
     pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the 
     Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not to exceed 
     $10,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 
     3109, and not to exceed $2,000,000 may be used for farmers' 
     bulletins.

                    Office of the Inspector General

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector 
     General, including employment pursuant to the second sentence 
     of section 706(a) of

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     the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and the Inspector 
     General Act of 1978, $70,839,000, including such sums as may 
     be necessary for contracting and other arrangements with 
     public agencies and private persons pursuant to section 
     6(a)(9) of the Inspector General Act of 1978, including not 
     to exceed $50,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; and 
     including not to exceed $125,000 for certain confidential 
     operational expenses, including the payment of informants, to 
     be expended under the direction of the Inspector General 
     pursuant to Public Law 95-452 and section 1337 of Public Law 
     97-98.

                     Office of the General Counsel

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the General 
     Counsel, $32,627,000.

  Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics to 
     administer the laws enacted by the Congress for the Economic 
     Research Service, the National Agricultural Statistics 
     Service, the Agricultural Research Service, and the 
     Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, 
     $573,000.

                       Economic Research Service

       For necessary expenses of the Economic Research Service in 
     conducting economic research and analysis, as authorized by 
     the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621-1627) 
     and other laws, $67,200,000: Provided, That this 
     appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to 
     the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 
     1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225).

                National Agricultural Statistics Service

       For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural 
     Statistics Service in conducting statistical reporting and 
     service work, including crop and livestock estimates, 
     statistical coordination and improvements, marketing surveys, 
     and the Census of Agriculture, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 
     1621-1627, Public Law 105-113, and other laws, $113,786,000, 
     of which up to $25,350,000 shall be available until expended 
     for the Census of Agriculture: Provided, That this 
     appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to 
     the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 
     1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $40,000 shall be 
     available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.

                     Agricultural Research Service


                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses to enable the Agricultural Research 
     Service to perform agricultural research and demonstration 
     relating to production, utilization, marketing, and 
     distribution (not otherwise provided for); home economics or 
     nutrition and consumer use including the acquisition, 
     preservation, and dissemination of agricultural information; 
     and for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, or 
     purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100, and for land 
     exchanges where the lands exchanged shall be of equal value 
     or shall be equalized by a payment of money to the grantor 
     which shall not exceed 25 percent of the total value of the 
     land or interests transferred out of Federal ownership, 
     $979,464,000: Provided, That appropriations hereunder shall 
     be available for temporary employment pursuant to the second 
     sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 
     U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $115,000 shall be available 
     for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That 
     appropriations hereunder shall be available for the operation 
     and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed 
     one for replacement only: Provided further, That 
     appropriations hereunder shall be available pursuant to 7 
     U.S.C. 2250 for the construction, alteration, and repair of 
     buildings and improvements, but unless otherwise provided, 
     the cost of constructing any one building shall not exceed 
     $375,000, except for headhouses or greenhouses which shall 
     each be limited to $1,200,000, and except for 10 buildings to 
     be constructed or improved at a cost not to exceed $750,000 
     each, and the cost of altering any one building during the 
     fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the current 
     replacement value of the building or $375,000, whichever is 
     greater: Provided further, That the limitations on 
     alterations contained in this Act shall not apply to 
     modernization or replacement of existing facilities at 
     Beltsville, Maryland: Provided further, That appropriations 
     hereunder shall be available for granting easements at the 
     Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, including an 
     easement to the University of Maryland to construct the 
     Transgenic Animal Facility which upon completion shall be 
     accepted by the Secretary as a gift: Provided further, 
     That the foregoing limitations shall not apply to 
     replacement of buildings needed to carry out the Act of 
     April 24, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 113a): Provided further, That 
     funds may be received from any State, other political 
     subdivision, organization, or individual for the purpose 
     of establishing or operating any research facility or 
     research project of the Agricultural Research Service, as 
     authorized by law.
       None of the funds in the foregoing paragraph shall be 
     available to carry out research related to the production, 
     processing or marketing of tobacco or tobacco products.
       In fiscal year 2002, the agency is authorized to charge 
     fees, commensurate with the fair market value, for any 
     permit, easement, lease, or other special use authorization 
     for the occupancy or use of land and facilities (including 
     land and facilities at the Beltsville Agricultural Research 
     Center) issued by the agency, as authorized by law, and such 
     fees shall be credited to this account, and shall remain 
     available until expended for authorized purposes.


                        buildings and facilities

       For acquisition of land, construction, repair, improvement, 
     extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed equipment or 
     facilities as necessary to carry out the agricultural 
     research programs of the Department of Agriculture, where not 
     otherwise provided, $118,987,000, to remain available until 
     expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b): Provided, That funds may be 
     received from any State, other political subdivision, 
     organization, or individual for the purpose of establishing 
     any research facility of the Agricultural Research Service, 
     as authorized by law.

      Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service


                   Research and Education Activities

       For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for 
     cooperative forestry and other research, for facilities, and 
     for other expenses, $542,062,000, as follows: to carry out 
     the provisions of the Hatch Act (7 U.S.C. 361a-i), 
     $180,148,000; for grants for cooperative forestry research 
     (16 U.S.C. 582a-a7), $21,884,000; for payments to the 1890 
     land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee University (7 U.S.C. 
     3222), $34,604,000, of which $1,507,496 shall be made 
     available only for the purpose of ensuring that each 
     institution shall receive no less than $1,000,000; for 
     special grants for agricultural research (7 U.S.C. 450i(c)), 
     $97,008,000; for special grants for agricultural research on 
     improved pest control (7 U.S.C. 450i(c)), $15,206,000; for 
     competitive research grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), $120,452,000; 
     for the support of animal health and disease programs (7 
     U.S.C. 3195), $5,098,000; for supplemental and alternative 
     crops and products (7 U.S.C. 3319d), $924,000; for grants for 
     research pursuant to the Critical Agricultural Materials Act 
     of 1984 (7 U.S.C. 178) and section 1472 of the Food and 
     Agriculture Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3318), $720,000, to remain 
     available until expended; for the 1994 research program (7 
     U.S.C. 301 note), $998,000, to remain available until 
     expended; for higher education graduate fellowship grants (7 
     U.S.C. 3152(b)(6)), $2,993,000, to remain available until 
     expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b); for higher education challenge 
     grants (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(1)), $4,340,000; for a higher 
     education multicultural scholars program (7 U.S.C. 
     3152(b)(5)), $998,000, to remain available until expended (7 
     U.S.C. 2209b); for an education grants program for Hispanic-
     serving Institutions (7 U.S.C. 3241), $3,492,000; for 
     noncompetitive grants for the purpose of carrying out all 
     provisions of 7 U.S.C. 3242 (Section 759 of Public Law 106-
     78) to individual eligible institutions or consortia of 
     eligible institutions in Alaska and in Hawaii, with funds 
     awarded equally to each of the States of Alaska and Hawaii, 
     $2,997,000; for a secondary agriculture education program and 
     2-year post-secondary education (7 U.S.C. 3152(h)), 
     $1,000,000; for aquaculture grants (7 U.S.C. 3322), 
     $3,996,000; for sustainable agriculture research and 
     education (7 U.S.C. 5811), $12,500,000; for a program of 
     capacity building grants (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(4)) to colleges 
     eligible to receive funds under the Act of August 30, 1890 (7 
     U.S.C. 321-326 and 328), including Tuskegee University, 
     $9,479,000, to remain available until expended (7 U.S.C. 
     2209b); for payments to the 1994 Institutions pursuant to 
     section 534(a)(1) of Public Law 103-382, $1,549,000; and for 
     necessary expenses of Research and Education Activities, of 
     which not to exceed $100,000 shall be for employment under 5 
     U.S.C. 3109, $21,676,000.
       None of the funds in the foregoing paragraph shall be 
     available to carry out research related to the production, 
     processing or marketing of tobacco or tobacco products: 
     Provided, That this paragraph shall not apply to research on 
     the medical, biotechnological, food, and industrial uses of 
     tobacco.


              Native American Institutions Endowment Fund

       For the Native American Institutions Endowment Fund 
     authorized by Public Law 103-382 (7 U.S.C. 301 note), 
     $7,100,000.


                          Extension Activities

       For payments to States, the District of Columbia, Puerto 
     Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Micronesia, Northern 
     Marianas, and American Samoa, $439,473,000, as follows: 
     payments for cooperative extension work under the Smith-Lever 
     Act, to be distributed under sections 3(b) and 3(c) of 
     said Act, and under section 208(c) of Public Law 93-471, 
     for retirement and employees' compensation costs for 
     extension agents and for costs of penalty mail for 
     cooperative extension agents and State extension 
     directors, $275,940,000, of which $3,600,000 may be used 
     to carry out Public Law 107-19; payments for extension 
     work at the 1994 Institutions under the Smith-Lever Act (7 
     U.S.C. 343(b)(3)), $3,273,000; payments for the nutrition 
     and family education program for low-income areas under 
     section 3(d) of the Act, $58,566,000; payments for the 
     pest management program under section 3(d) of the Act, 
     $10,759,000; payments for the farm safety program under 
     section 3(d) of the Act, $5,250,000; payments to upgrade 
     research, extension, and teaching facilities at the 1890 
     land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee University, as 
     authorized by section 1447 of Public Law 95-113 (7 U.S.C. 
     3222b), $13,500,000, to remain available until expended; 
     payments for the rural development centers under section 
     3(d) of the Act, $953,000; payments for youth-at-risk 
     programs under section 3(d) of the Act, $8,481,000; for 
     youth farm safety education and certification extension 
     grants, to be awarded competitively under section 3(d) of 
     the Act, $499,000; payments for carrying out the 
     provisions of the Renewable Resources Extension Act of 
     1978, $4,093,000; payments for Indian reservation agents 
     under section 3(d) of the Act, $1,996,000; payments for 
     sustainable agriculture programs under section 3(d) of the 
     Act, $4,750,000; payments for rural health and safety 
     education as authorized by section 2390 of Public Law 101-
     624 (7 U.S.C. 2661 note, 2662), $2,622,000; payments for 
     cooperative extension work by the colleges receiving the 
     benefits of the second Morrill Act (7 U.S.C. 321-326 and 
     328) and Tuskegee University, $31,181,000, of which 
     $1,724,884 shall be made available only

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     for the purpose of ensuring that each institution shall 
     receive no less than $1,000,000; and for Federal 
     administration and coordination including administration 
     of the Smith-Lever Act, and the Act of September 29, 1977 
     (7 U.S.C. 341-349), and section 1361(c) of the Act of 
     October 3, 1980 (7 U.S.C. 301 note), and to coordinate and 
     provide program leadership for the extension work of the 
     Department and the several States and insular possessions, 
     $17,610,000: Provided, That funds hereby appropriated 
     pursuant to section 3(c) of the Act of June 26, 1953, and 
     section 506 of the Act of June 23, 1972, shall not be paid 
     to any State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, 
     or the Virgin Islands, Micronesia, Northern Marianas, and 
     American Samoa prior to availability of an equal sum from 
     non-Federal sources for expenditure during the current 
     fiscal year.


                         Integrated Activities

       For the integrated research, education, and extension 
     competitive grants programs, including necessary 
     administrative expenses, as authorized under section 406 of 
     the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform 
     Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7626), $42,853,000, as follows: 
     payments for the water quality program, $12,971,000; payments 
     for the food safety program, $14,967,000; payments for the 
     national agriculture pesticide impact assessment program, 
     $4,531,000; payments for the Food Quality Protection Act risk 
     mitigation program for major food crop systems, $4,889,000; 
     payments for the crops affected by Food Quality Protection 
     Act implementation, $1,497,000; payments for the methyl 
     bromide transition program, $2,498,000; and payments for the 
     organic transition program, $1,500,000.

  Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs to 
     administer programs under the laws enacted by the Congress 
     for the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; the 
     Agricultural Marketing Service; and the Grain Inspection, 
     Packers and Stockyards Administration; $654,000.

               Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service


                         Salaries and Expenses

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For expenses, not otherwise provided for, including those 
     pursuant to the Act of February 28, 1947 (21 U.S.C. 114b-c), 
     necessary to prevent, control, and eradicate pests and plant 
     and animal diseases; to carry out inspection, quarantine, and 
     regulatory activities; to discharge the authorities of the 
     Secretary of Agriculture under the Acts of March 2, 1931 (46 
     Stat. 1468) and December 22, 1987 (101 Stat. 1329-1331) (7 
     U.S.C. 426-426c); and to protect the environment, as 
     authorized by law, $620,490,000, of which $4,096,000 shall be 
     available for the control of outbreaks of insects, plant 
     diseases, animal diseases and for control of pest animals and 
     birds to the extent necessary to meet emergency conditions; 
     of which $77,355,000 shall be used for the boll weevil 
     eradication program for cost share purposes or for debt 
     retirement for active eradication zones: Provided, That no 
     funds shall be used to formulate or administer a brucellosis 
     eradication program for the current fiscal year that does not 
     require minimum matching by the States of at least 40 
     percent: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be 
     available for field employment pursuant to the second 
     sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 
     U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $40,000 shall be available 
     for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That 
     this appropriation shall be available for the operation and 
     maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed 
     four, of which two shall be for replacement only: Provided 
     further, That, in addition, in emergencies which threaten any 
     segment of the agricultural production industry of this 
     country, the Secretary may transfer from other appropriations 
     or funds available to the agencies or corporations of the 
     Department such sums as may be deemed necessary, to be 
     available only in such emergencies for the arrest and 
     eradication of contagious or infectious disease or pests of 
     animals, poultry, or plants, and for expenses in accordance 
     with the Act of February 28, 1947, and section 102 of the Act 
     of September 21, 1944, and any unexpended balances of funds 
     transferred for such emergency purposes in the preceding 
     fiscal year shall be merged with such transferred amounts: 
     Provided further, That appropriations hereunder shall be 
     available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the repair and 
     alteration of leased buildings and improvements, but unless 
     otherwise provided the cost of altering any one building 
     during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the 
     current replacement value of the building.
       In fiscal year 2002, the agency is authorized to collect 
     fees to cover the total costs of providing technical 
     assistance, goods, or services requested by States, other 
     political subdivisions, domestic and international 
     organizations, foreign governments, or individuals, provided 
     that such fees are structured such that any entity's 
     liability for such fees is reasonably based on the technical 
     assistance, goods, or services provided to the entity by the 
     agency, and such fees shall be credited to this account, to 
     remain available until expended, without further 
     appropriation, for providing such assistance, goods, or 
     services.
       Of the total amount available under this heading in fiscal 
     year 2002, $84,813,000 shall be derived from user fees 
     deposited in the Agricultural Quarantine Inspection User Fee 
     Account.


                        buildings and facilities

       For plans, construction, repair, preventive maintenance, 
     environmental support, improvement, extension, alteration, 
     and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities, as authorized 
     by 7 U.S.C. 2250, and acquisition of land as authorized by 7 
     U.S.C. 428a, $7,189,000, to remain available until expended.

                     Agricultural Marketing Service


                           Marketing Services

       For necessary expenses to carry out services related to 
     consumer protection, agricultural marketing and distribution, 
     transportation, and regulatory programs, as authorized by 
     law, and for administration and coordination of payments to 
     States, including field employment pursuant to the second 
     sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 
     U.S.C. 2225) and not to exceed $90,000 for employment under 5 
     U.S.C. 3109, $71,430,000, including funds for the wholesale 
     market development program for the design and development of 
     wholesale and farmer market facilities for the major 
     metropolitan areas of the country: Provided, That this 
     appropriation shall be available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 
     2250) for the alteration and repair of buildings and 
     improvements, but the cost of altering any one building 
     during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the 
     current replacement value of the building.
       Fees may be collected for the cost of standardization 
     activities, as established by regulation pursuant to law (31 
     U.S.C. 9701).


                 limitation on administrative expenses

       Not to exceed $60,596,000 (from fees collected) shall be 
     obligated during the current fiscal year for administrative 
     expenses: Provided, That if crop size is understated and/or 
     other uncontrollable events occur, the agency may exceed this 
     limitation by up to 10 percent with notification to the 
     Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.


    funds for strengthening markets, income, and supply (section 32)

                     (including transfers of funds)

       Funds available under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 
     1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c), shall be used only for commodity 
     program expenses as authorized therein, and other related 
     operating expenses, except for: (1) transfers to the 
     Department of Commerce as authorized by the Fish and Wildlife 
     Act of August 8, 1956; (2) transfers otherwise provided in 
     this Act; and (3) not more than $13,995,000 for formulation 
     and administration of marketing agreements and orders 
     pursuant to the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 
     and the Agricultural Act of 1961.


                   Payments to States and Possessions

       For payments to departments of agriculture, bureaus and 
     departments of markets, and similar agencies for marketing 
     activities under section 204(b) of the Agricultural Marketing 
     Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1623(b)), $1,347,000.

        Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration


                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the 
     United States Grain Standards Act, for the administration of 
     the Packers and Stockyards Act, for certifying procedures 
     used to protect purchasers of farm products, and the 
     standardization activities related to grain under the 
     Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, including field 
     employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) 
     of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed 
     $25,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $33,117,000: 
     Provided, That this appropriation shall be available pursuant 
     to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alteration and repair of 
     buildings and improvements, but the cost of altering any one 
     building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent 
     of the current replacement value of the building.


        Limitation on Inspection and Weighing Services Expenses

       Not to exceed $42,463,000 (from fees collected) shall be 
     obligated during the current fiscal year for inspection and 
     weighing services: Provided, That if grain export activities 
     require additional supervision and oversight, or other 
     uncontrollable factors occur, this limitation may be exceeded 
     by up to 10 percent with notification to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.

             Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Under Secretary for Food Safety to administer the laws 
     enacted by the Congress for the Food Safety and Inspection 
     Service, $476,000.

                   Food Safety and Inspection Service

       For necessary expenses to carry out services authorized by 
     the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products 
     Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act, 
     including not to exceed $50,000 for representation allowances 
     and for expenses pursuant to section 8 of the Act approved 
     August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1766), $715,642,000, of which no 
     less than $608,730,000 shall be available for Federal food 
     inspection; and in addition, $1,000,000 may be credited to 
     this account from fees collected for the cost of laboratory 
     accreditation as authorized by section 1017 of Public Law 
     102-237: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available 
     for field employment pursuant to the second sentence of 
     section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), 
     and not to exceed $75,000 shall be available for employment 
     under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That this 
     appropriation shall be available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 
     2250) for the alteration and repair of buildings and 
     improvements, but the cost of altering any one building 
     during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the 
     current replacement value of the building.

    Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural 
                                Services

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services to 
     administer the laws enacted by Congress for the Farm Service 
     Agency, the Foreign Agricultural Service, the Risk

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     Management Agency, and the Commodity Credit Corporation, 
     $606,000.

                          Farm Service Agency


                         Salaries and Expenses

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For necessary expenses for carrying out the administration 
     and implementation of programs administered by the Farm 
     Service Agency, $939,030,000: Provided, That the Secretary is 
     authorized to use the services, facilities, and authorities 
     (but not the funds) of the Commodity Credit Corporation to 
     make program payments for all programs administered by the 
     Agency: Provided further, That other funds made available to 
     the Agency for authorized activities may be advanced to and 
     merged with this account: Provided further, That these funds 
     shall be available for employment pursuant to the second 
     sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 
     U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available 
     for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.


                         state mediation grants

       For grants pursuant to section 502(b) of the Agricultural 
     Credit Act of 1987 (7 U.S.C. 5101-5106), $3,493,000.


                        dairy indemnity program

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses involved in making indemnity 
     payments to dairy farmers and manufacturers of dairy products 
     under a dairy indemnity program, $100,000, to remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That such program is 
     carried out by the Secretary in the same manner as the dairy 
     indemnity program described in the Agriculture, Rural 
     Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Law 106-387; 114 
     Stat. 1549A-12).


           agricultural credit insurance fund program account

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For gross obligations for the principal amount of direct 
     and guaranteed loans as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1928-1929, to 
     be available from funds in the Agricultural Credit Insurance 
     Fund, as follows: farm ownership loans, $1,146,996,000, of 
     which $1,000,000,000 shall be for guaranteed loans and 
     $146,996,000 shall be for direct loans; operating loans, 
     $2,616,729,000, of which $1,500,000,000 shall be for 
     unsubsidized guaranteed loans, $505,531,000 shall be for 
     subsidized guaranteed loans and $611,198,000 shall be for 
     direct loans; Indian tribe land acquisition loans as 
     authorized by 25 U.S.C. 488, $2,000,000; for emergency 
     insured loans, $25,000,000 to meet the needs resulting from 
     natural disasters; and for boll weevil eradication program 
     loans as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1989, $100,000,000.
       For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, including the 
     cost of modifying loans as defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as follows: farm ownership 
     loans, $8,366,000, of which $4,500,000 shall be for 
     guaranteed loans; operating loans, $175,780,000, of which 
     $52,650,000 shall be for unsubsidized guaranteed loans and 
     $68,550,000 shall be for subsidized guaranteed loans; Indian 
     tribe land acquisition loans as authorized by 25 U.S.C. 488, 
     $118,400; and for emergency insured loans, $3,362,500 to meet 
     the needs resulting from natural disasters.
       In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry 
     out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $280,595,000, of 
     which $272,595,000 shall be transferred to and merged with 
     the appropriation for ``Farm Service Agency, Salaries and 
     Expenses''.
       Funds appropriated by this Act to the Agricultural Credit 
     Insurance Program Account for farm ownership and operating 
     direct loans and guaranteed loans may be transferred among 
     these programs: Provided, That the Committees on 
     Appropriations of both Houses of Congress are notified at 
     least 15 days in advance of any transfer.

                         Risk Management Agency

       For administrative and operating expenses, as authorized by 
     the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 
     U.S.C. 6933), $74,752,000: Provided, That not to exceed $700 
     shall be available for official reception and representation 
     expenses, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1506(i).

                              CORPORATIONS

       The following corporations and agencies are hereby 
     authorized to make expenditures, within the limits of funds 
     and borrowing authority available to each such corporation or 
     agency and in accord with law, and to make contracts and 
     commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as 
     provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control 
     Act as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set 
     forth in the budget for the current fiscal year for such 
     corporation or agency, except as hereinafter provided.

                Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund

       For payments as authorized by section 516 of the Federal 
     Crop Insurance Act, such sums as may be necessary, to remain 
     available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b).

                   Commodity Credit Corporation Fund


                 reimbursement for net realized losses

       For fiscal year 2002, such sums as may be necessary to 
     reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for net realized 
     losses sustained, but not previously reimbursed, pursuant to 
     section 2 of the Act of August 17, 1961 (15 U.S.C. 713a-11).


       operations and maintenance for hazardous waste management

                        (limitation on expenses)

       For fiscal year 2002, the Commodity Credit Corporation 
     shall not expend more than $5,000,000 for site investigation 
     and cleanup expenses, and operations and maintenance expenses 
     to comply with the requirement of section 107(g) of the 
     Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
     Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 9607(g), and section 6001 of the 
     Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 6961.

                                TITLE II

                         CONSERVATION PROGRAMS

  Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment to 
     administer the laws enacted by the Congress for the Forest 
     Service and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, 
     $730,000.

                 Natural Resources Conservation Service


                        conservation operations

       For necessary expenses for carrying out the provisions of 
     the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a-f), including 
     preparation of conservation plans and establishment of 
     measures to conserve soil and water (including farm 
     irrigation and land drainage and such special measures for 
     soil and water management as may be necessary to prevent 
     floods and the siltation of reservoirs and to control 
     agricultural related pollutants); operation of conservation 
     plant materials centers; classification and mapping of soil; 
     dissemination of information; acquisition of lands, water, 
     and interests therein for use in the plant materials program 
     by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal cost not to 
     exceed $100 pursuant to the Act of August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 
     428a); purchase and erection or alteration or improvement of 
     permanent and temporary buildings; and operation and 
     maintenance of aircraft, $779,000,000, to remain available 
     until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b), of which not less than 
     $8,515,000 is for snow survey and water forecasting, and not 
     less than $9,849,000 is for operation and establishment of 
     the plant materials centers, and of which not less than 
     $21,500,000 shall be for the grazing lands conservation 
     initiative: Provided, That appropriations hereunder shall be 
     available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for construction and 
     improvement of buildings and public improvements at plant 
     materials centers, except that the cost of alterations and 
     improvements to other buildings and other public improvements 
     shall not exceed $250,000: Provided further, That when 
     buildings or other structures are erected on non-Federal 
     land, that the right to use such land is obtained as provided 
     in 7 U.S.C. 2250a: Provided further, That this appropriation 
     shall be available for technical assistance and related 
     expenses to carry out programs authorized by section 202(c) 
     of title II of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act 
     of 1974 (43 U.S.C. 1592(c)): Provided further, That this 
     appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to 
     the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 
     1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $25,000 shall be 
     available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided 
     further, That qualified local engineers may be temporarily 
     employed at per diem rates to perform the technical planning 
     work of the Service (16 U.S.C. 590e-2).


                     Watershed Surveys and Planning

       For necessary expenses to conduct research, investigation, 
     and surveys of watersheds of rivers and other waterways, and 
     for small watershed investigations and planning, in 
     accordance with the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention 
     Act approved August 4, 1954 (16 U.S.C. 1001-1009), 
     $10,960,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be 
     available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of 
     section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), 
     and not to exceed $110,000 shall be available for employment 
     under 5 U.S.C. 3109.


               Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations

       For necessary expenses to carry out preventive measures, 
     including but not limited to research, engineering 
     operations, methods of cultivation, the growing of 
     vegetation, rehabilitation of existing works and changes in 
     use of land, in accordance with the Watershed Protection and 
     Flood Prevention Act approved August 4, 1954 (16 U.S.C. 1001-
     1005 and 1007-1009), the provisions of the Act of April 27, 
     1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a-f), and in accordance with the 
     provisions of laws relating to the activities of the 
     Department, $106,590,000, to remain available until expended 
     (7 U.S.C. 2209b) (of which up to $15,000,000 may be available 
     for the watersheds authorized under the Flood Control Act 
     approved June 22, 1936 (33 U.S.C. 701 and 16 U.S.C. 1006a)): 
     Provided, That not to exceed $45,514,000 of this 
     appropriation shall be available for technical assistance: 
     Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available 
     for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 
     706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to 
     exceed $200,000 shall be available for employment under 5 
     U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That not to exceed $1,000,000 
     of this appropriation is available to carry out the purposes 
     of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Public Law 93-205), 
     including cooperative efforts as contemplated by that Act to 
     relocate endangered or threatened species to other suitable 
     habitats as may be necessary to expedite project 
     construction.


                    WATERSHED REHABILITATION Program

       For necessary expenses to carry out rehabilitation of 
     structural measures, in accordance with section 14 of the 
     Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act approved August 
     4, 1954 (16 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), as amended by section 313 
     of Public Law 106-472, November 9, 2000 (16 U.S.C. 1012), and 
     in accordance with the provisions of laws relating to the 
     activities of the Department, $10,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended.


                 Resource Conservation and Development

       For necessary expenses in planning and carrying out 
     projects for resource conservation and development and for 
     sound land use pursuant to the provisions of section 32(e) of 
     title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C.

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     1010-1011; 76 Stat. 607); the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 
     U.S.C. 590a-f); and the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 (16 
     U.S.C. 3451-3461), $48,048,000, to remain available until 
     expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b): Provided, That this appropriation 
     shall be available for employment pursuant to the second 
     sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 
     U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $50,000 shall be available 
     for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.


                      Forestry Incentives Program

       For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, to 
     carry out the program of forestry incentives, as authorized 
     by the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 
     2101), including technical assistance and related expenses, 
     $6,811,000, to remain available until expended, as authorized 
     by that Act.

                               TITLE III

                       RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

          Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Under Secretary for Rural Development to administer programs 
     under the laws enacted by the Congress for the Rural Housing 
     Service, the Rural Business-Cooperative Service, and the 
     Rural Utilities Service of the Department of Agriculture, 
     $623,000.


                  rural community advancement program

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees, and grants, 
     as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1926, 1926a, 1926c, 1926d, and 
     1932, except for sections 381E-H, 381N, and 381O of the 
     Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, $806,557,000, to 
     remain available until expended, of which $83,545,000 shall 
     be for rural community programs described in section 
     381E(d)(1) of such Act; of which $646,512,000 shall be for 
     the rural utilities programs described in sections 
     381E(d)(2), 306C(a)(2), and 306D of such Act; and of which 
     $76,500,000 shall be for the rural business and cooperative 
     development programs described in sections 381E(d)(3) and 
     310B(f) of such Act: Provided, That of the total amount 
     appropriated in this account, $24,000,000 shall be for loans 
     and grants to benefit Federally Recognized Native American 
     Tribes, including grants for drinking water and waste 
     disposal systems pursuant to section 306C of such Act, of 
     which $4,000,000 shall be available for community facilities 
     grants to tribal colleges, as authorized by section 
     306(a)(19) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 
     Act, and of which $250,000 shall be available for a grant to 
     a qualified national organization to provide technical 
     assistance for rural transportation in order to promote 
     economic development: Provided further, That of the amount 
     appropriated for rural community programs, $6,000,000 shall 
     be available for a Rural Community Development Initiative: 
     Provided further, That such funds shall be used solely to 
     develop the capacity and ability of private, nonprofit 
     community-based housing and community development 
     organizations, low-income rural communities, and Federally 
     Recognized Native American Tribes to undertake projects to 
     improve housing, community facilities, community and economic 
     development projects in rural areas: Provided further, That 
     such funds shall be made available to qualified private, 
     nonprofit and public intermediary organizations proposing to 
     carry out a program of financial and technical assistance: 
     Provided further, That such intermediary organizations shall 
     provide matching funds from other sources, including Federal 
     funds for related activities, in an amount not less than 
     funds provided: Provided further, That of the amount 
     appropriated for the rural business and cooperative 
     development programs, not to exceed $500,000 shall be made 
     available for a grant to a qualified national organization to 
     provide technical assistance for rural transportation in 
     order to promote economic development; and $2,000,000 shall 
     be for grants to Mississippi Delta Region counties: Provided 
     further, That of the amount appropriated for rural utilities 
     programs, not to exceed $20,000,000 shall be for water and 
     waste disposal systems to benefit the Colonias along the 
     United States/Mexico border, including grants pursuant to 
     section 306C of such Act; not to exceed $24,000,000 shall be 
     for water and waste disposal systems for rural and native 
     villages in Alaska pursuant to section 306D of such Act, with 
     up to one percent available to administer the program and up 
     to one percent available to improve interagency coordination 
     may be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
     ``Rural Development, Salaries and Expenses''; not to exceed 
     $17,465,000, shall be for technical assistance grants for 
     rural water and waste systems pursuant to section 306(a)(14) 
     of such Act , of which $5,250,000 shall be for Rural 
     Community Assistance Programs; and not to exceed $11,000,000 
     shall be for contracting with qualified national 
     organizations for a circuit rider program to provide 
     technical assistance for rural water systems: Provided 
     further, That of the total amount appropriated, not to exceed 
     $37,624,000 shall be available through June 30, 2002, for 
     authorized empowerment zones and enterprise communities and 
     communities designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as 
     Rural Economic Area Partnership Zones; of which $1,163,000 
     shall be for the rural community programs described in 
     section 381E(d)(1) of such Act, of which $27,431,000 shall be 
     for the rural utilities programs described in section 
     381E(d)(2) of such Act, and of which $9,030,000 shall be for 
     the rural business and cooperative development programs 
     described in section 381E(d)(3) of such Act: Provided 
     further, That of the amount appropriated for rural community 
     programs, not to exceed $25,000,000 shall be to provide 
     grants for facilities in rural communities with extreme 
     unemployment and severe economic depression (P.L. 106-387), 
     with five percent for administration and capacity building in 
     the State rural development offices: Provided further, That 
     of the amount appropriated $30,000,000 shall be to provide 
     grants in rural communities with extremely high energy costs: 
     Provided further, That any prior year balances for high cost 
     energy grants authorized by section 19 of the Rural 
     Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 901(19)) shall be 
     transferred to and merged with the ``Rural Utilities 
     Service, High Energy Costs Grants'' account: Provided 
     further, That of the funds appropriated by this Act to the 
     Rural Community Advancement Program for guaranteed 
     business and industry loans, funds may be transferred to 
     direct business and industry loans as deemed necessary by 
     the Secretary and with prior approval of the Committees on 
     Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.


                Rural Development Salaries and Expenses

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For necessary expenses for carrying out the administration 
     and implementation of programs in the Rural Development 
     mission area, including activities with institutions 
     concerning the development and operation of agricultural 
     cooperatives; and for cooperative agreements; $133,722,000: 
     Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for 
     employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) 
     of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed 
     $1,000,000 may be used for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: 
     Provided further, That not more than $10,000 may be expended 
     to provide modest nonmonetary awards to non-USDA employees: 
     Provided further, That any balances available from prior 
     years for the Rural Utilities Service, Rural Housing Service, 
     and the Rural Business-Cooperative Service salaries and 
     expenses accounts shall be transferred to and merged with 
     this appropriation.

                         Rural Housing Service


              rural housing insurance fund program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For gross obligations for the principal amount of direct 
     and guaranteed loans as authorized by title V of the Housing 
     Act of 1949, to be available from funds in the rural housing 
     insurance fund, as follows: $4,217,816,000 for loans to 
     section 502 borrowers, as determined by the Secretary, of 
     which $1,079,848,000 shall be for direct loans, and of which 
     $3,137,968,000 shall be for unsubsidized guaranteed loans; 
     $32,324,000 for section 504 housing repair loans; 
     $114,068,000 for section 515 rental housing; $99,770,000 for 
     section 538 guaranteed multi-family housing loans; $5,090,000 
     for section 524 site loans; $11,778,000 for credit sales of 
     acquired property, of which up to $1,778,000 may be for 
     multi-family credit sales; and $5,000,000 for section 523 
     self-help housing land development loans.
       For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, including the 
     cost of modifying loans, as defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as follows: section 502 
     loans, $182,274,000 of which $142,108,000 shall be for direct 
     loans, and of which $40,166,000 shall be for unsubsidized 
     guaranteed loans; section 504 housing repair loans, 
     $10,386,000; section 515 rental housing, $48,274,000; section 
     538 multi-family housing guaranteed loans, $3,921,000; 
     section 524 site loans, $28,000; multi-family credit sales of 
     acquired property, $750,000; and section 523 self-help 
     housing land development loans, $254,000: Provided, That of 
     the total amount appropriated in this paragraph, $11,656,000 
     shall be available through June 30, 2002, for authorized 
     empowerment zones and enterprise communities and communities 
     designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as Rural Economic 
     Area Partnership Zones.
       In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry 
     out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $422,241,000, 
     which shall be transferred to and merged with the 
     appropriation for ``Rural Development, Salaries and 
     Expenses''.
       Of the amounts made available under this heading in chapter 
     1 of title II of Public Law 106-246 (114 Stat. 540) for gross 
     obligations for principal amount of direct loans authorized 
     by title V of the Housing Act of 1949 for section 515 rental 
     housing, the Secretary of Agriculture may use up to 
     $5,986,197 for rental assistance agreements described in the 
     item relating to ``Rental Assistance Program'' in such 
     chapter: Provided, That such amount is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Control Act 
     of 1985, as amended.
       In making available for occupancy dwelling units in housing 
     that is provided with funds made available under the heading 
     referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Secretary of 
     Agriculture may give preference to prospective tenants who 
     are residing in temporary housing provided by the Federal 
     Emergency Management Agency as a result of an emergency.


                       rental assistance program

       For rental assistance agreements entered into or renewed 
     pursuant to the authority under section 521(a)(2) or 
     agreements entered into in lieu of debt forgiveness or 
     payments for eligible households as authorized by section 
     502(c)(5)(D) of the Housing Act of 1949, $701,004,000; and, 
     in addition, such sums as may be necessary, as authorized by 
     section 521(c) of the Act, to liquidate debt incurred prior 
     to fiscal year 1992 to carry out the rental assistance 
     program under section 521(a)(2) of the Act: Provided, That of 
     this amount, not more than $5,900,000 shall be available 
     for debt forgiveness or payments for eligible households 
     as authorized by section 502(c)(5)(D) of the Act, and not 
     to exceed $10,000 per project for advances to nonprofit 
     organizations or public agencies to cover direct costs 
     (other than

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     purchase price) incurred in purchasing projects pursuant 
     to section 502(c)(5)(C) of the Act: Provided further, That 
     agreements entered into or renewed during fiscal year 2002 
     shall be funded for a 5-year period, although the life of 
     any such agreement may be extended to fully utilize 
     amounts obligated.


                  Mutual and Self-Help Housing Grants

       For grants and contracts pursuant to section 523(b)(1)(A) 
     of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490c), $35,000,000, to 
     remain available until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b): Provided, 
     That of the total amount appropriated, $1,000,000 shall be 
     available through June 30, 2002, for authorized empowerment 
     zones and enterprise communities and communities designated 
     by the Secretary of Agriculture as Rural Economic Area 
     Partnership Zones.


                    Rural Housing Assistance Grants

       For grants and contracts for very low-income housing 
     repair, supervisory and technical assistance, compensation 
     for construction defects, and rural housing preservation made 
     by the Rural Housing Service, as authorized by 42 U.S.C. 
     1474, 1479(c), 1490e, and 1490m, $38,914,000, to remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That of the total amount 
     appropriated, $1,200,000 shall be available through June 30, 
     2002, for authorized empowerment zones and enterprise 
     communities and communities designated by the Secretary of 
     Agriculture as Rural Economic Area Partnership Zones.


                       farm labor program account

       For the cost of direct loans, grants, and contracts, as 
     authorized by 42 U.S.C. 1484 and 1486, $31,431,000, to remain 
     available until expended, for direct farm labor housing loans 
     and domestic farm labor housing grants and contracts.

                  Rural Business--Cooperative Service


              rural development loan fund program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For the principal amount of direct loans, as authorized by 
     the Rural Development Loan Fund (42 U.S.C. 9812(a)), 
     $38,171,000.
       For the cost of direct loans, $16,494,000, as authorized by 
     the Rural Development Loan Fund (42 U.S.C. 9812(a)), of which 
     $1,724,000 shall be for Federally Recognized Native American 
     Tribes and of which $3,449,000 shall be for Mississippi Delta 
     Region counties (as defined by Public Law 100-460): Provided, 
     That such costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, 
     shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That of the total 
     amount appropriated, $2,730,000 shall be available through 
     June 30, 2002, for the cost of direct loans for authorized 
     empowerment zones and enterprise communities and communities 
     designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as Rural Economic 
     Area Partnership Zones.
       In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
     direct loan programs, $3,733,000 shall be transferred to and 
     merged with the appropriation for ``Rural Development, 
     Salaries and Expenses''.


            Rural Economic Development Loans Program Account

                    (including rescission of funds)

       For the principal amount of direct loans, as authorized 
     under section 313 of the Rural Electrification Act, for the 
     purpose of promoting rural economic development and job 
     creation projects, $14,966,000.
       For the cost of direct loans, including the cost of 
     modifying loans as defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, $3,616,000.
       Of the funds derived from interest on the cushion of credit 
     payments in fiscal year 2002, as authorized by section 313 of 
     the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, $3,616,000 shall not 
     be obligated and $3,616,000 are rescinded.


                  Rural Cooperative Development Grants

       For rural cooperative development grants authorized under 
     section 310B(e) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1932), $7,750,000, of which 
     $2,500,000 shall be available for cooperative agreements for 
     the appropriate technology transfer for rural areas program: 
     Provided, That not to exceed $1,497,000 of the total amount 
     appropriated shall be made available to cooperatives or 
     associations of cooperatives whose primary focus is to 
     provide assistance to small, minority producers and whose 
     governing board and/or membership is comprised of at least 
     75 percent minority.


       rural empowerment zones and enterprise communities grants

       For grants in connection with a second round of empowerment 
     zones and enterprise communities, $14,967,000, to remain 
     available until expended, for designated rural empowerment 
     zones and rural enterprise communities, as authorized by the 
     Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 and the Omnibus Consolidated and 
     Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 (Public Law 
     105-277).

                        Rural Utilities Service


   rural electrification and telecommunications loans program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

       Insured loans pursuant to the authority of section 305 of 
     the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935) shall be 
     made as follows: 5 percent rural electrification loans, 
     $121,107,000; municipal rate rural electric loans, 
     $500,000,000; loans made pursuant to section 306 of that Act, 
     rural electric, $2,700,000,000; Treasury rate direct electric 
     loans, $750,000,000; 5 percent rural telecommunications 
     loans, $74,827,000; cost of money rural telecommunications 
     loans, $300,000,000; and loans made pursuant to section 306 
     of that Act, rural telecommunications loans, $120,000,000.
       For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, including the cost of 
     modifying loans, of direct and guaranteed loans authorized by 
     the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935 and 936), 
     as follows: cost of rural electric loans, $3,689,000, and the 
     cost of telecommunication loans, $2,036,000: Provided, That 
     notwithstanding section 305(d)(2) of the Rural 
     Electrification Act of 1936, borrower interest rates may 
     exceed 7 percent per year.
       In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry 
     out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $36,000,000, 
     which shall be transferred to and merged with the 
     appropriation for ``Rural Development, Salaries and 
     Expenses''.


                  rural telephone bank program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

       The Rural Telephone Bank is hereby authorized to make such 
     expenditures, within the limits of funds available to such 
     corporation in accord with law, and to make such contracts 
     and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as 
     provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control 
     Act, as may be necessary in carrying out its authorized 
     programs. During fiscal year 2002 and within the resources 
     and authority available, gross obligations for the principal 
     amount of direct loans shall be $174,615,000.
       For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, including the cost of 
     modifying loans, of direct loans authorized by the Rural 
     Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935), $3,737,000.
       In addition, for administrative expenses, including audits, 
     necessary to carry out the loan programs, $3,082,000, which 
     shall be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
     ``Rural Development, Salaries and Expenses''.


               distance learning and telemedicine program

       For the principal amount of direct distance learning and 
     telemedicine loans, $300,000,000; and for the principal 
     amount of broadband telecommunication loans, $80,000,000.
       For the cost of direct loans and grants, as authorized by 7 
     U.S.C. 950aaa et seq., $49,441,000, to remain available until 
     expended, to be available for loans and grants for 
     telemedicine and distance learning services in rural areas: 
     Provided, That $22,500,000 may be available for the 
     continuation of a pilot project for a loan and grant program 
     to finance broadband transmission and local dial-up Internet 
     service in areas that meet the definition of ``rural area'' 
     used for the Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program 
     authorized by 7 U.S.C. 950aaa: Provided further, That the 
     cost of direct loans shall be as defined in section 502 of 
     the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.


            local television loan guarantee program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For gross obligations for the principal amount of 
     guaranteed loans, as authorized by Title X of Public Law 106-
     553 for the purpose of facilitating access to signals of 
     local television stations for households located in nonserved 
     areas and underserved areas, $258,065,000.
       For the cost of guaranteed loans, including the cost of 
     modifying loans as defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, $20,000,000.
       In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry 
     out the guaranteed loan program, $2,000,000, which shall be 
     transferred to and merged with the appropriation for ``Rural 
     Development, Salaries and Expenses''.

                                TITLE IV

                         DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS

Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services

       For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services to 
     administer the laws enacted by the Congress for the Food and 
     Nutrition Service, $587,000.

                       Food and Nutrition Service


                        child nutrition programs

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses to carry out the National School 
     Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), except section 21, and 
     the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.), 
     except sections 17 and 21; $10,087,246,000, to remain 
     available through September 30, 2003, of which $4,914,788,000 
     is hereby appropriated and $5,172,458,000 shall be derived by 
     transfer from funds available under section 32 of the Act of 
     August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c): Provided, That none of the 
     funds made available under this heading shall be used for 
     studies and evaluations: Provided further, That of the funds 
     made available under this heading, $500,000 shall be for a 
     School Breakfast Program startup grant pilot program for the 
     State of Wisconsin: Provided further, That up to $4,507,000 
     shall be available for independent verification of school 
     food service claims.


special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children 
                                 (wic)

       For necessary expenses to carry out the special 
     supplemental nutrition program as authorized by section 17 of 
     the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786), 
     $4,348,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 
     2003: Provided, That none of the funds made available under 
     this heading shall be used for studies and evaluations: 
     Provided further, That of the total amount available, the 
     Secretary shall obligate $10,000,000 for the farmers' market 
     nutrition program within 45 days of the enactment of this 
     Act, and up to an additional $15,000,000 for the farmers' 
     market nutrition program upon a determination by the 
     Secretary that funds are available to meet caseload 
     requirements: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 
     17(h)(10)(A) of such Act, $10,000,000 shall be available for 
     the purposes specified in section 17(h)(10)(B), and up to an 
     additional $4,000,000 shall be available for the purposes 
     specified in section 17(h)(10)(B) upon a determination by the

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     Secretary that funds are available to meet caseload 
     requirements: Provided further, That none of the funds in 
     this Act shall be available to pay administrative expenses of 
     WIC clinics except those that have an announced policy of 
     prohibiting smoking within the space used to carry out the 
     program: Provided further, That none of the funds provided in 
     this account shall be available for the purchase of infant 
     formula except in accordance with the cost containment and 
     competitive bidding requirements specified in section 17 of 
     such Act: Provided further, That none of the funds provided 
     shall be available for activities that are not fully 
     reimbursed by other Federal Government departments or 
     agencies unless authorized by section 17 of such Act.


                           food stamp program

       For necessary expenses to carry out the Food Stamp Act (7 
     U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), $22,991,986,000, of which 
     $2,000,000,000 shall be placed in reserve for use only in 
     such amounts and at such times as may become necessary to 
     carry out program operations: Provided, That of the funds 
     made available under this heading and not already 
     appropriated to the Food Distribution Program on Indian 
     Reservations (FDPIR) established under section 4(b) of the 
     Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2013(b)), not to exceed 
     $3,000,000 shall be used to purchase bison meat for the FDPIR 
     from producer-owned cooperative organizations: Provided 
     further, That none of the funds made available under this 
     heading shall be used for studies and evaluations: Provided 
     further, That funds provided herein shall be expended in 
     accordance with section 16 of the Food Stamp Act: Provided 
     further, That this appropriation shall be subject to any work 
     registration or workfare requirements as may be required by 
     law: Provided further, That of funds that may be reserved by 
     the Secretary for allocation to State agencies under section 
     16(h)(1) of such Act to carry out Employment and Training 
     programs, not more than $145,000,000 made available in 
     previous years may be obligated in fiscal year 2002: Provided 
     further, That funds made available for Employment and 
     Training under this heading shall remain available until 
     expended, as authorized by section 16(h)(1) of the Food Stamp 
     Act: Provided further, That funds provided under this heading 
     may be used to procure food coupons necessary for program 
     operations in this or subsequent fiscal years until 
     electronic benefit transfer implementation is complete.


                      commodity assistance program

                         (including rescission)

       For necessary expenses to carry out the commodity 
     supplemental food program as authorized by section 4(a) of 
     the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 (7 U.S.C. 
     612c note) and the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983, 
     $152,813,000, to remain available through September 30, 2003: 
     Provided, That none of these funds shall be available to 
     reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for commodities 
     donated to the program: Provided further, That of the total 
     amount available, the Secretary shall provide $10,000,000 for 
     senior farmers' market activities: Provided further, That 
     notwithstanding section 5(a)(2) of the Agriculture and 
     Consumer Protection Act of 1973 (Public Law 93-86; 7 
     U.S.C. 612c note), $20,820,000 of this amount shall be 
     available for administrative expenses of the commodity 
     supplemental food program: Provided further, That 
     $3,300,000 of unobligated balances available at the 
     beginning of fiscal year 2002 are hereby rescinded.


                        Food Donations Programs

       For necessary expenses to carry out section 4(a) of the 
     Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973; special 
     assistance for the nuclear affected islands as authorized by 
     section 103(h)(2) of the Compacts of Free Association Act of 
     1985; and section 311 of the Older Americans Act of 1965, 
     $150,749,000, to remain available through September 30, 2003.


                      Food Program Administration

       For necessary administrative expenses of the domestic food 
     programs funded under this Act, $127,546,000, of which 
     $5,000,000 shall be available only for simplifying 
     procedures, reducing overhead costs, tightening regulations, 
     improving food stamp benefit delivery, and assisting in the 
     prevention, identification, and prosecution of fraud and 
     other violations of law and of which not less than $6,500,000 
     shall be available to improve integrity in the Food Stamp and 
     Child Nutrition programs: Provided, That this appropriation 
     shall be available for employment pursuant to the second 
     sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 
     U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $150,000 shall be available 
     for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.

                                TITLE V

                FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS

                      Foreign Agricultural Service


                         salaries and expenses

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For necessary expenses of the Foreign Agricultural Service, 
     including carrying out title VI of the Agricultural Act of 
     1954 (7 U.S.C. 1761-1768), market development activities 
     abroad, and for enabling the Secretary to coordinate and 
     integrate activities of the Department in connection with 
     foreign agricultural work, including not to exceed $158,000 
     for representation allowances and for expenses pursuant to 
     section 8 of the Act approved August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1766), 
     $121,813,000: Provided, That the Service may utilize advances 
     of funds, or reimburse this appropriation for expenditures 
     made on behalf of Federal agencies, public and private 
     organizations and institutions under agreements executed 
     pursuant to the agricultural food production assistance 
     programs (7 U.S.C. 1737) and the foreign assistance programs 
     of the United States Agency for International Development: 
     Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated in this 
     account may be used to pay the salaries and expenses of 
     personnel to disburse funds to any rice trade association 
     under the market access program or the foreign market 
     development program at any time when the applicable 
     international activity agreement for such program is not 
     in effect.
       None of the funds in the foregoing paragraph shall be 
     available to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco 
     products.


                 Public Law 480 Title I Program Account

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of agreements under the 
     Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, 
     and the Food for Progress Act of 1985, including the cost of 
     modifying credit arrangements under said Acts, $126,409,000, 
     to remain available until expended.
       In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
     credit program of title I, Public Law 83-480, and the Food 
     for Progress Act of 1985, to the extent funds appropriated 
     for Public Law 83-480 are utilized, $2,005,000, of which 
     $1,033,000 may be transferred to and merged with the 
     appropriation for ``Foreign Agricultural Service, Salaries 
     and Expenses'', and of which $972,000 may be transferred to 
     and merged with the appropriation for ``Farm Service Agency, 
     Salaries and Expenses''.


        Public Law 480 Title I Ocean Freight Differential Grants

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For ocean freight differential costs for the shipment of 
     agricultural commodities under title I of the Agricultural 
     Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and under the 
     Food for Progress Act of 1985, $20,277,000, to remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That funds made available 
     for the cost of agreements under title I of the Agricultural 
     Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and for title I 
     ocean freight differential may be used interchangeably 
     between the two accounts with prior notice to the Committees 
     on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.


                     Public Law 480 Title II Grants

       For expenses during the current fiscal year, not otherwise 
     recoverable, and unrecovered prior years' costs, including 
     interest thereon, under the Agricultural Trade Development 
     and Assistance Act of 1954, $850,000,000, to remain available 
     until expended, for commodities supplied in connection with 
     dispositions abroad under title II of said Act.


       Commodity Credit Corporation Export Loans Program Account

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For administrative expenses to carry out the Commodity 
     Credit Corporation's export guarantee program, GSM 102 and 
     GSM 103, $4,014,000; to cover common overhead expenses as 
     permitted by section 11 of the Commodity Credit Corporation 
     Charter Act and in conformity with the Federal Credit Reform 
     Act of 1990, of which $3,224,000 may be transferred to and 
     merged with the appropriation for ``Foreign Agricultural 
     Service, Salaries and Expenses'', and of which $790,000 may 
     be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
     ``Farm Service Agency, Salaries and Expenses''.

                                TITLE VI

           RELATED AGENCIES AND FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                      Food and Drug Administration


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Food and Drug Administration, 
     including hire and purchase of passenger motor vehicles; for 
     payment of space rental and related costs pursuant to Public 
     Law 92-313 for programs and activities of the Food and Drug 
     Administration which are included in this Act; for rental of 
     special purpose space in the District of Columbia or 
     elsewhere; and for miscellaneous and emergency expenses of 
     enforcement activities, authorized and approved by the 
     Secretary and to be accounted for solely on the Secretary's 
     certificate, not to exceed $25,000; $1,345,386,000, of which 
     not to exceed $161,716,000 to be derived from prescription 
     drug user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379(h), including any 
     such fees assessed prior to the current fiscal year but 
     credited during the current year, in accordance with section 
     736(g)(4), shall be credited to this appropriation and remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That fees derived from 
     applications received during fiscal year 2002 shall be 
     subject to the fiscal year 2002 limitation: Provided further, 
     That none of these funds shall be used to develop, establish, 
     or operate any program of user fees authorized by 31 U.S.C. 
     9701: Provided further, That of the total amount 
     appropriated: (1) $312,049,000 shall be for the Center for 
     Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and related field 
     activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (2) 
     $352,647,000 shall be for the Center for Drug Evaluation and 
     Research and related field activities in the Office of 
     Regulatory Affairs, of which no less than $13,207,000 shall 
     be available for grants and contracts awarded under section 5 
     of the Orphan Drug Act (21 U.S.C. 360ee); (3) $155,875,000 
     shall be for the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research 
     and for related field activities in the Office of Regulatory 
     Affairs; (4) $82,967,000 shall be for the Center for 
     Veterinary Medicine and for related field activities in the 
     Office of Regulatory Affairs; (5) $179,521,000 shall be for 
     the Center for Devices and Radiological Health and for 
     related field activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; 
     (6) $37,082,000 shall be for the National Center for 
     Toxicological Research; (7) $29,798,000 shall be for Rent and 
     Related activities, other than the amounts paid to the 
     General Services Administration, of which $4,000,000 for 
     costs related to occupancy of new facilities at

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     White Oak, Maryland, shall remain available until September 
     30, 2003; (8) $105,116,000 shall be for payments to the 
     General Services Administration for rent and related costs; 
     and (9) $90,331,000 shall be for other activities, including 
     the Office of the Commissioner; the Office of Management and 
     Systems; the Office of the Senior Associate Commissioner; the 
     Office of International and Constituent Relations; the Office 
     of Policy, Legislation, and Planning; and central services 
     for these offices: Provided further, That funds may be 
     transferred from one specified activity to another with the 
     prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both 
     Houses of Congress.
       In addition, mammography user fees authorized by 42 U.S.C. 
     263(b) may be credited to this account, to remain available 
     until expended.
       In addition, export certification user fees authorized by 
     21 U.S.C. 381 may be credited to this account, to remain 
     available until expended.


                        buildings and facilities

       For plans, construction, repair, improvement, extension, 
     alteration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of 
     or used by the Food and Drug Administration, where not 
     otherwise provided, $34,281,000, to remain available until 
     expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b).

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                  Commodity Futures Trading Commission

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the 
     Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), including the 
     purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; the rental of 
     space (to include multiple year leases) in the District of 
     Columbia and elsewhere; and not to exceed $25,000 for 
     employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $70,700,000, including not to 
     exceed $2,000 for official reception and representation 
     expenses.

                       Farm Credit Administration


                 Limitation on Administrative Expenses

       Not to exceed $36,700,000 (from assessments collected from 
     farm credit institutions and from the Federal Agricultural 
     Mortgage Corporation) shall be obligated during the current 
     fiscal year for administrative expenses as authorized under 
     12 U.S.C. 2249: Provided, That this limitation shall not 
     apply to expenses associated with receiverships.

                     TITLE VII--GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 701. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law, 
     appropriations and authorizations made for the Department of 
     Agriculture for fiscal year 2002 under this Act shall be 
     available for the purchase, in addition to those specifically 
     provided for, of not to exceed 379 passenger motor vehicles, 
     of which 378 shall be for replacement only, and for the hire 
     of such vehicles.
       Sec. 702. Funds in this Act available to the Department of 
     Agriculture shall be available for uniforms or allowances 
     therefor as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902).
       Sec. 703. Not less than $1,500,000 of the appropriations of 
     the Department of Agriculture in this Act for research and 
     service work authorized by sections 1 and 10 of the Act of 
     June 29, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 427, 427i; commonly known as the 
     Bankhead-Jones Act), subtitle A of title II and section 302 
     of the Act of August 14, 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621 et seq.), and 
     chapter 63 of title 31, United States Code, shall be 
     available for contracting in accordance with such Acts and 
     chapter.
       Sec. 704. The Secretary of Agriculture may transfer 
     unobligated balances of funds appropriated by this Act or 
     other available unobligated balances of the Department of 
     Agriculture to the Working Capital Fund for the acquisition 
     of plant and capital equipment necessary for the delivery of 
     financial, administrative, and information technology 
     services of primary benefit to the agencies of the Department 
     of Agriculture: Provided, That none of the funds made 
     available by this Act or any other Act shall be transferred 
     to the Working Capital Fund without the prior approval of the 
     agency administrator: Provided further, That none of the 
     funds transferred to the Working Capital Fund pursuant to 
     this section shall be available for obligation without the 
     prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both 
     Houses of Congress.
       Sec. 705. New obligational authority provided for the 
     following appropriation items in this Act shall remain 
     available until expended: Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
     Service, the contingency fund to meet emergency conditions, 
     fruit fly program, emerging plant pests, integrated systems 
     acquisition project, boll weevil program, up to 25 percent of 
     the screwworm program, and up to $2,000,000 for costs 
     associated with collocating regional offices; Food Safety and 
     Inspection Service, field automation and information 
     management project; Cooperative State Research, Education, 
     and Extension Service, funds for competitive research grants 
     (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), funds for the Research, Education and 
     Economics Information System (REEIS), and funds for the 
     Native American Institutions Endowment Fund; Farm Service 
     Agency, salaries and expenses funds made available to county 
     committees; Foreign Agricultural Service, middle-income 
     country training program and up to $2,000,000 of the Foreign 
     Agricultural Service appropriation solely for the purpose of 
     offsetting fluctuations in international currency exchange 
     rates, subject to documentation by the Foreign Agricultural 
     Service.
       Sec. 706. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
     Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
     fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
       Sec. 707. Not to exceed $50,000 of the appropriations 
     available to the Department of Agriculture in this Act shall 
     be available to provide appropriate orientation and language 
     training pursuant to section 606C of the Act of August 28, 
     1954 (7 U.S.C. 1766b).
       Sec. 708. No funds appropriated by this Act may be used to 
     pay negotiated indirect cost rates on cooperative agreements 
     or similar arrangements between the United States Department 
     of Agriculture and nonprofit institutions in excess of 10 
     percent of the total direct cost of the agreement when the 
     purpose of such cooperative arrangements is to carry out 
     programs of mutual interest between the two parties. This 
     does not preclude appropriate payment of indirect costs on 
     grants and contracts with such institutions when such 
     indirect costs are computed on a similar basis for all 
     agencies for which appropriations are provided in this Act.
       Sec. 709. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 
     to restrict the authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation 
     to lease space for its own use or to lease space on behalf of 
     other agencies of the Department of Agriculture when such 
     space will be jointly occupied.
       Sec. 710. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 
     to pay indirect costs charged against competitive 
     agricultural research, education, or extension grant awards 
     issued by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and 
     Extension Service that exceed 19 percent of total Federal 
     funds provided under each award: Provided, That 
     notwithstanding section 1462 of the National Agricultural 
     Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 
     U.S.C. 3310), funds provided by this Act for grants awarded 
     competitively by the Cooperative State Research, Education, 
     and Extension Service shall be available to pay full 
     allowable indirect costs for each grant awarded under section 
     9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638).
       Sec. 711. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
     all loan levels provided in this Act shall be considered 
     estimates, not limitations.
       Sec. 712. Appropriations to the Department of Agriculture 
     for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans made available in 
     fiscal year 2002 shall remain available until expended to 
     cover obligations made in fiscal year 2002 for the 
     following accounts: the Rural Development Loan Fund 
     program account; the Rural Telephone Bank program account; 
     the Rural Electrification and Telecommunications Loans 
     program account; the Local Television Loan Guarantee 
     program; the Rural Housing Insurance Fund program account; 
     and the Rural Economic Development Loans program account.
       Sec. 713. Notwithstanding chapter 63 of title 31, United 
     States Code, marketing services of the Agricultural Marketing 
     Service; the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards 
     Administration; the Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
     Service; and the food safety activities of the Food Safety 
     and Inspection Service may use cooperative agreements to 
     reflect a relationship between the Agricultural Marketing 
     Service; the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards 
     Administration; the Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
     Service; or the Food Safety and Inspection Service and a 
     state or cooperator to carry out agricultural marketing 
     programs, to carry out programs to protect the nation's 
     animal and plant resources, or to carry out educational 
     programs or special studies to improve the safety of the 
     nation's food supply.
       Sec. 714. None of the funds in this Act may be used to 
     retire more than 5 percent of the Class A stock of the Rural 
     Telephone Bank or to maintain any account or subaccount 
     within the accounting records of the Rural Telephone Bank the 
     creation of which has not specifically been authorized by 
     statute: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
     of law, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available in this Act may be used to transfer to the Treasury 
     or to the Federal Financing Bank any unobligated balance of 
     the Rural Telephone Bank telephone liquidating account which 
     is in excess of current requirements and such balance shall 
     receive interest as set forth for financial accounts in 
     section 505(c) of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990.
       Sec. 715. Of the funds made available by this Act, not more 
     than $1,800,000 shall be used to cover necessary expenses of 
     activities related to all advisory committees, panels, 
     commissions, and task forces of the Department of 
     Agriculture, except for panels used to comply with negotiated 
     rule makings and panels used to evaluate competitively 
     awarded grants.
       Sec. 716. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     used to carry out section 410 of the Federal Meat Inspection 
     Act (21 U.S.C. 679a) or section 30 of the Poultry Products 
     Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 471).
       Sec. 717. No employee of the Department of Agriculture may 
     be detailed or assigned from an agency or office funded by 
     this Act to any other agency or office of the Department for 
     more than 30 days unless the individual's employing agency or 
     office is fully reimbursed by the receiving agency or office 
     for the salary and expenses of the employee for the period of 
     assignment.
       Sec. 718. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available to the Department of Agriculture shall be used to 
     transmit or otherwise make available to any non-Department of 
     Agriculture employee questions or responses to questions that 
     are a result of information requested for the appropriations 
     hearing process.
       Sec. 719. None of the funds made available to the 
     Department of Agriculture by this Act may be used to acquire 
     new information technology systems or significant upgrades, 
     as determined by the Office of the Chief Information Officer, 
     without the approval of the Chief Information Officer and the 
     concurrence of the Executive Information Technology 
     Investment Review Board: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
     other provision of law, none of the funds appropriated or 
     otherwise made available by this Act may be transferred to 
     the Office of the Chief Information Officer without the prior 
     approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
     of Congress.
       Sec. 720. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, or 
     provided by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies 
     funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or 
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     fiscal year 2002, or provided from any accounts in the 
     Treasury of the United States derived by the collection of 
     fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 
     available for obligation or expenditure through a 
     reprogramming of funds which: (1) creates new programs; (2) 
     eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases 
     funds or personnel by any means for any project or activity 
     for which funds have been denied or restricted; (4) relocates 
     an office or employees; (5) reorganizes offices, programs, or 
     activities; or (6) contracts out or privatizes any functions 
     or activities presently performed by Federal employees; 
     unless the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 
     Congress are notified 15 days in advance of such 
     reprogramming of funds.
       (b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided by 
     previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this 
     Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in 
     fiscal year 2002, or provided from any accounts in the 
     Treasury of the United States derived by the collection of 
     fees available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 
     available for obligation or expenditure for activities, 
     programs, or projects through a reprogramming of funds in 
     excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, that: 
     (1) augments existing programs, projects, or activities; (2) 
     reduces by 10 percent funding for any existing program, 
     project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by 10 percent 
     as approved by Congress; or (3) results from any general 
     savings from a reduction in personnel which would result in a 
     change in existing programs, activities, or projects as 
     approved by Congress; unless the Committees on Appropriations 
     of both Houses of Congress are notified 15 days in advance of 
     such reprogramming of funds.
       (c) The Secretary of Agriculture shall notify the 
     Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress 
     before implementing a program or activity not carried out 
     during the previous fiscal year unless the program or 
     activity is funded by this Act or specifically funded by any 
     other Act.
       Sec. 721. With the exception of funds needed to administer 
     and conduct oversight of grants awarded and obligations 
     incurred prior to enactment of this Act, none of the funds 
     appropriated or otherwise made available by this or any other 
     Act may be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel 
     to carry out section 793 of Public Law 104-127, the Fund for 
     Rural America (7 U.S.C. 2204f).
       Sec. 722. With the exception of funds needed to administer 
     and conduct oversight of grants awarded and obligations 
     incurred prior to enactment of this Act, none of the funds 
     appropriated or otherwise made available by this or any other 
     Act may be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel 
     to carry out the provisions of section 401 of Public Law 105-
     185, the Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems 
     (7 U.S.C. 7621).
       Sec. 723. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act shall be used to pay the salaries and 
     expenses of personnel to carry out a conservation farm option 
     program, as authorized by section 1240M of the Food Security 
     Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839bb).
       Sec. 724. None of the funds made available to the Food and 
     Drug Administration by this Act shall be used to reduce the 
     Detroit, Michigan, Food and Drug Administration District 
     Office below the operating and full-time equivalent staffing 
     level of July 31, 1999; or to change the Detroit District 
     Office to a station, residence post or similarly modified 
     office; or to reassign residence posts assigned to the 
     Detroit District Office: Provided, That this section shall 
     not apply to Food and Drug Administration field laboratory 
     facilities or operations currently located in Detroit, 
     Michigan, except that field laboratory personnel shall be 
     assigned to locations in the general vicinity of Detroit, 
     Michigan, pursuant to cooperative agreements between the 
     Food and Drug Administration and other laboratory 
     facilities associated with the State of Michigan.
       Sec. 725. None of the funds appropriated by this Act or any 
     other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of 
     personnel who prepare or submit appropriations language as 
     part of the President's Budget submission to the Congress of 
     the United States for programs under the jurisdiction of the 
     Appropriations Subcommittees on Agriculture, Rural 
     Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
     Agencies that assumes revenues or reflects a reduction from 
     the previous year due to user fees proposals that have not 
     been enacted into law prior to the submission of the Budget 
     unless such Budget submission identifies which additional 
     spending reductions should occur in the event the user fees 
     proposals are not enacted prior to the date of the convening 
     of a committee of conference for the fiscal year 2003 
     appropriations Act.
       Sec. 726. None of the funds made available by this Act or 
     any other Act may be used to close or relocate a state Rural 
     Development office unless or until cost effectiveness and 
     enhancement of program delivery have been determined.
       Sec. 727. Of any shipments of commodities made pursuant to 
     section 416(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 
     1431(b)), the Secretary of Agriculture shall, to the extent 
     practicable, direct that tonnage equal in value to not more 
     than $25,000,000 shall be made available to foreign countries 
     to assist in mitigating the effects of the Human 
     Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency 
     Syndrome on communities, including the provision of--
       (1) agricultural commodities to--
       (A) individuals with Human Immunodeficiency Virus or 
     Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in the communities, and
       (B) households in the communities, particularly individuals 
     caring for orphaned children; and
       (2) agricultural commodities monetized to provide other 
     assistance (including assistance under microcredit and 
     microenterprise programs) to create or restore sustainable 
     livelihoods among individuals in the communities, 
     particularly individuals caring for orphaned children.
       Sec. 728. In addition to amounts otherwise appropriated or 
     made available by this Act, $2,496,000 is appropriated for 
     the purpose of providing Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland 
     Hunger Fellowships through the Congressional Hunger Center.
       Sec. 729. Hereafter, refunds or rebates received on an on-
     going basis from a credit card services provider under the 
     Department of Agriculture's charge card programs may be 
     deposited to and retained without fiscal year limitation in 
     the Department's Working Capital Fund established under 7 
     U.S.C. 2235 and used to fund management initiatives of 
     general benefit to the Department of Agriculture bureaus and 
     offices as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture or the 
     Secretary's designee.
       Sec. 730. Notwithstanding section 412 of the Agricultural 
     Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1736f) 
     any balances available to carry out title III of such Act as 
     of the date of enactment of this Act, and any recoveries and 
     reimbursements that become available to carry out title III 
     of such Act, may be used to carry out title II of such Act.
       Sec. 731. Section 375(e)(6)(B) of the Consolidated Farm and 
     Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2008j(e)(6)(B)) is amended by 
     striking ``$25,000,000'' and inserting ``$26,000,000''.
       Sec. 732. None of the funds appropriated or made available 
     by this Act shall be used to issue a proposed rule for which 
     the comment period would close prior to September 30, 2002, 
     final, or interim final rule pursuant to notice and comment 
     rulemaking in relation to any change or modification of the 
     definition of ``animal'' in existing regulations pursuant to 
     the Animal Welfare Act.
       Sec. 733. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     City of Cabot, Arkansas, the City of Berlin, New Hampshire, 
     and the City of Coachella, California, shall be eligible for 
     loans and grants provided through the Rural Community 
     Advancement Program.
       Sec. 734. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Secretary shall consider the City of Casa Grande, Arizona, as 
     meeting the requirements of a rural area in section 520 of 
     the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490).
       Sec. 735. Of the funds made available under section 27(a) 
     of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), the 
     Secretary may use up to $5,000,000 for administrative costs 
     associated with the distribution of commodities.
       Sec. 736. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Secretary may transfer up to $13,000,000 in funds provided 
     for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program authorized 
     by Chapter 4, Subtitle D, Title XII of the Food Security Act 
     of 1985, for technical assistance to implement the 
     Conservation Reserve Program authorized by subchapter B, 
     Chapter 1, Title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985, with 
     funds to remain available until expended.
       Sec. 737. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     City of St. Joseph, Missouri, shall be eligible for grants 
     and loans administered by the rural development mission area 
     of the Department of Agriculture relating to an application 
     submitted to the Department by a farmer-owned cooperative, a 
     majority of whose members reside in a rural area, as 
     determined by the Secretary, and for the purchase and 
     operation of a facility beneficial to the purpose of the 
     cooperative.
       Sec. 738. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Secretary of Agriculture shall consider the City of 
     Hollister, California, as meeting the requirements of a rural 
     area for the purposes of housing programs in the rural 
     development mission areas of the Department of Agriculture.
       Sec. 739. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used to maintain, modify, or 
     implement any assessment against agricultural producers as 
     part of a commodity promotion, research, and consumer 
     information order, known as a check-off program, that has not 
     been approved by the affected producers in accordance with 
     the statutory requirements applicable to the order.
       Sec. 740. None of the funds made available to the Food and 
     Drug Administration by this Act shall be used to close or 
     relocate, or to plan to close or relocate, the Food and Drug 
     Administration Division of Drug Analysis (recently renamed 
     the Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis) in St. Louis, 
     Missouri, except that funds could be used to plan a possible 
     relocation of this Division within the city limits of St. 
     Louis, Missouri.
       Sec. 741. Market Loss Assistance for Apple Producers (a) 
     Assistance Available.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall use 
     $75,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to 
     make payments as soon as possible after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act to apple producers to provide relief 
     for the loss of markets for their 2000 crop.
       (b) Payment Basis.--The amount of the payment to a producer 
     under subsection (a) shall be made on a per pound basis equal 
     to each qualifying producer's 2000 production of apples, 
     except that the Secretary shall not make payments for that 
     amount of a particular farm's apple production that is in 
     excess of 20,000,000 pounds.
       (c) Duplicative Payments.--A producer shall be ineligible 
     for payments under this section with respect to a market loss 
     for apples to the extent of that amount that the producer 
     received as compensation or assistance for the same loss 
     under any other Federal program, other than under the Federal 
     Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.).
       (d) Other Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary shall not 
     establish any terms or conditions for producer eligibility, 
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     based upon gross income, other than those specified in this 
     section.
       (e) Applicability.--This section applies only with respect 
     to the 2000 crop of apples and producers of that crop.
       Sec. 742. No funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
     under this Act shall be made available to any person or 
     entity that has been convicted of violating the Act of March 
     3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a-10c; popularly known as the ``Buy 
     American Act'').
       Sec. 743. Section 17(a)(2)(B) of the Richard B. Russell 
     National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1766(a)(2)(B)) is 
     amended by striking ``2001'' and inserting ``2002''.
       Sec. 744. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Natural Resources Conservation Service shall provide 
     financial and technical assistance in the amount of $150,000 
     to the Mallard Pointe project in Madison County, Mississippi.
       Sec. 745. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Secretary of Agriculture shall, in cooperation with the State 
     of Illinois, develop and implement a pilot project utilizing 
     conservation programs of the Department of Agriculture for 
     soil, water, wetlands, and wildlife habitat enhancement in 
     the Illinois River Basin: Provided, That no funds shall be 
     made available to carry out this section unless they are 
     expressly provided for a program in this Act or any other Act 
     for obligation in fiscal year 2002: Provided further, That 
     any conservation reserve program enrollments made pursuant to 
     this section shall be subject to section 734 of this Act.
       Sec. 746. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Natural Resources Conservation Service shall provide $250,000 
     for a wetlands restoration and water conservation project in 
     the vicinity of Jamestown, Rhode Island.
       Sec. 747. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     $3,000,000 shall be made available from funds under the rural 
     business and cooperative development programs of the Rural 
     Community Advancement Program for a grant for an integrated 
     ethanol plant, feedlot, and animal waste digestion unit, to 
     the extent matching funds from the Department of Energy are 
     provided if a commitment for such matching funds is made 
     prior to July 1, 2002: Provided, That such funds shall be 
     released to the project after the farmer-owned cooperative 
     equity is in place, and a formally executed commitment from a 
     qualified lender based upon receipt of necessary permits, 
     contract, and other appropriate documentation has been 
     secured by the project.
       Sec. 748. Hereafter, notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, the Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service shall 
     use the authorities provided in the Rural Electrification Act 
     of 1936 to finance the acquisition of existing generation, 
     transmission and distribution systems and facilities serving 
     high cost, predominantly rural areas by entities capable of 
     and dedicated to providing or improving service in such areas 
     in an efficient and cost effective manner.
       Sec. 749. Notwithstanding subsection (f) of section 156 of 
     the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7272(f)), 
     any assessment imposed under that subsection for marketings 
     of raw cane sugar or beet sugar for the 2002 fiscal year 
     shall not be required to be remitted to the Commodity Credit 
     Corporation before September 2, 2002.
       Sec. 750. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Natural 
     Resources Conservation Service, shall provide financial 
     assistance from available funds from the Emergency Watershed 
     Protection Program in Arkansas, in an amount not to exceed 
     $400,000 for completion of the current construction phase of 
     the Kuhn Bayou (Point Remove) Project.
       Sec. 751. (a) Temporary Use of Existing Payments to States 
     Table.--Notwithstanding section 101(a)(1) of the Secure Rural 
     Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Public 
     Law 106-393; 16 U.S.C. 500 note), for the purpose of making 
     the fiscal year 2001 payments under section 102 of such Act 
     to eligible States and eligible counties, the full payment 
     amount for each eligible State and eligible county shall be 
     deemed to be equal to the full payment amount calculated for 
     that eligible State or eligible county in the Forest Service 
     document entitled ``P.L. 106-393, Secure Rural Schools and 
     Community Self-Determination Act'' and dated July 31, 2001, 
     subject to the adjustment required by section 101(b) of such 
     Act.
       (b) Revision of Table.--For the purpose of making payments 
     under section 102 of such Act to eligible States and eligible 
     counties for fiscal years 2002 through 2006, as required by 
     section 101(a)(1) of such Act, the Secretary of Agriculture 
     shall revise the table referred to in subsection (a) to 
     accurately reflect, to the maximum extent practicable, each 
     eligible State's and eligible county's historic share of the 
     25-percent payments and safety net payments made for the 
     fiscal years of the eligibility period.
       (c) Reporting Requirement.--Not later than March 1, 2002, 
     the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the Committee on 
     Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee 
     on Agriculture of the House of Representatives a report 
     containing the revisions made to the table referred to in 
     subsection (a), as required by subsection (b).
       (d) Additional Eligible County Election.--Notwithstanding 
     section 102(b)(2) of such Act, if the revision pursuant to 
     subsection (b) of the table referred to in subsection (a) 
     results in a reduced full payment amount for an eligible 
     county that elected under section 102(b) of such Act to 
     receive the full payment amount, the eligible county shall 
     have a 90-day period, beginning on the date the revised table 
     is first available to the public, during which to reconsider 
     and change its election. The eligible county shall notify the 
     Secretary of Agriculture of any change in its election before 
     the end of such period. If an eligible county elects under 
     this subsection to receive the 25-percent payment in place of 
     the full payment amount, the election shall be effective for 
     one year.
       (e) Treatment of Certain Mineral Leasing Receipts.--(1) An 
     eligible county that elects under section 102(b) of such Act 
     to receive its share of an eligible State's full payment 
     amount shall continue to receive its share of any payments 
     made to that State from a lease for mineral resources issued 
     by the Secretary of the Interior under the last paragraph 
     under the heading ``forest service.'' in the Act of March 4, 
     1917 (Chapter 179; 16 U.S.C. 520).
       (2) Section 6(b) of the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired 
     Lands (30 U.S.C. 355(b)) is amended by inserting after the 
     first sentence the following new sentence: ``The preceding 
     sentence shall also apply to any payment to a State derived 
     from a lease for mineral resources issued by the Secretary of 
     the Interior under the last paragraph under the heading 
     `forest service.' in the Act of March 4, 1917 (Chapter 179; 
     16 U.S.C. 520).''.
       (f) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``eligible 
     State'', ``eligible county'', ``eligibility period'', ``full 
     payment amount'', ``25-percent payment'', and ``safety net 
     payments'' have the meanings given such terms in section 3 of 
     such Act, and the term ``such Act'' means the Secure Rural 
     Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Public 
     Law 106-393; 16 U.S.C. 500 note).
       Sec. 752. Alaska Permanent Fund. Section 501(b) of the 
     Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1471) is amended in paragraph 
     (5)--
       (1) by striking ``(5)'' and inserting ``(5)(A)''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(B) For purposes of this title, for fiscal years 2002 and 
     2003, the term `income' does not include dividends received 
     from the Alaska Permanent Fund by a person who was under the 
     age of 18 years when that person qualified for the 
     dividend.''.
       Sec. 753. Hereafter, any provision of any Act of Congress 
     relating to colleges and universities eligible to receive 
     funds under the Act of August 30, 1890, including Tuskegee 
     University, shall apply to West Virginia State College at 
     Institute, West Virginia: Provided, That the Secretary may 
     waive the matching funds' requirement under section 1449 of 
     the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
     Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3222d) for fiscal year 2002 for 
     West Virginia State College if the Secretary determines the 
     State of West Virginia will be unlikely to satisfy the 
     matching requirement.
       Sec. 754. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Secretary, acting through the Natural Resources Conservation 
     Service, shall provide financial and technical assistance 
     relating to the Tanana River bordering the Big Delta State 
     Historical Park.
       Sec. 755. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act to the Food and Drug Administration 
     shall be used to allow admission of fish or fish products 
     labeled wholly or in part as ``catfish'' unless the products 
     are taxonomically from the family Ictaluridae.
       Sec. 756. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to 
     accept any unused funds transferred to the Alaska Railroad 
     Corporation for avalanche control and retransfer up to 
     $499,000 of such funds as a direct lump sum payment to the 
     City of Valdez to construct an avalanche control wall to 
     protect a public school.
       Sec. 757. The Secretary of Agriculture may use not more 
     than $5,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation 
     to pay claims of crop damage, upon consultation with the 
     Secretary of the Interior, that resulted from the Bureau of 
     Land Management's use of herbicides during the 2001 calendar 
     year in the State of Idaho: Provided, That if the amount 
     provided in this section is not sufficient to pay all 
     approved claims the Secretary of Agriculture shall reduce all 
     approved claims on a pro rata basis related to the degree of 
     loss in production: Provided further, That nothing in this 
     section shall be construed to constitute an admission of 
     liability by the United States arising from the use by the 
     Bureau of Land Management of the herbicide Oust: Provided 
     further, That the issuance of regulations promulgated 
     pursuant to this section shall be made without regard to: (1) 
     the notice and comment provisions of section 553 of title 5, 
     United States Code; (2) the Statement of Policy of the 
     Secretary of Agriculture effective July 24, 1971 (36 Fed. 
     Reg. 13804), relating to notices of proposed rulemaking and 
     public participation in rulemaking; and (3) chapter 35 of 
     title 44, United States Code (commonly known as the 
     ``Paperwork Reduction Act''): Provided further, That in 
     carrying out this section, the Secretary shall use the 
     authority provided under section 808 of title 5, United 
     States Code.
       Sec. 758. Pilot Program for Enrollment of Wetland and 
     Buffer Acreage in Conservation Reserve. (a) In General.--
     Section 1231(h)(4)(B) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
     U.S.C. 3831(h)(4)(B)) is amended by inserting ``(which may 
     include emerging vegetation in water)'' after ``vegetative 
     cover''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 1232(a)(4) of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3832(a)(4)) is amended by 
     inserting ``(which may include emerging vegetation in 
     water)'' after ``vegetative cover''.
       Sec. 759. Speciality Crops. (a) Grading of Tobacco.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than March 31, 2002, the 
     Secretary of Agriculture (referred to in this section as the 
     ``Secretary'') shall conduct referenda among producers of 
     each kind of tobacco that is eligible for price support under 
     the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.) to 
     determine whether such producers favor the mandatory grading 
     of that kind of tobacco by the Secretary.
       (2) Mandatory grading.--
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     majority of the producers of a kind of tobacco voting in the 
     referendum, the Secretary is authorized and directed to 
     ensure that the kind of tobacco is graded at the time of sale 
     effective for the 2002 and subsequent marketing years.
       (B) Fees.--To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary 
     shall establish, collect, and use fees for the grading of 
     tobacco required under this subsection in the same manner as 
     user fees for the grading of tobacco sold at auction 
     authorized under the Tobacco Inspection Act (7 U.S.C. 511 et 
     seq.).
       (3) Judicial review.--A determination by the Secretary 
     under this subsection shall not be subject to judicial 
     review.
       (b) Quota Reduction for Conservation Reserve Acreage.--
       (1) In general.--Section 1236 of the Food Security Act of 
     1985 (16 U.S.C. 3836) is amended--
       (A) by striking subsection (a);
       (B) by redesignating subsections (b), (c), and (d) as 
     subsections (a), (b), and (c), respectively;
       (C) in subsection (b) (as so redesignated), by striking 
     ``subsection (b)'' and inserting ``subsection (a)''; and
       (D) in subsection (c) (as so redesignated), by striking 
     ``subsection (c)'' and inserting ``subsection (b)''.
       (2) Conforming amendment.--Section 1232(a)(5) of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3832(a)(5)) is amended by 
     striking ``section 1236(d)'' and inserting ``section 
     1236(c)''.
       (3) Application.--The amendments made by this subsection 
     shall apply beginning with the 2002 crop.
       (c) Horse Breeder Loans.--
       (1) Definition of horse breeder.--In this subsection, the 
     term ``horse breeder'' means a person that, as of the date of 
     enactment of this Act, derives more than 70 percent of the 
     income of the person from the business of breeding, boarding, 
     raising, training, or selling horses, during the shorter of--
       (A) the 5-year period ending on January 1, 2001; or
       (B) the period the person has been engaged in such 
     business.
       (2) Loan authorization.--The Secretary shall make loans to 
     eligible horse breeders to assist the horse breeders for 
     losses suffered as a result of mare reproductive loss 
     syndrome.
       (3) Eligibility.--A horse breeder shall be eligible for a 
     loan under this subsection if the Secretary determines that, 
     as a result of mare reproductive loss syndrome--
       (A) during the period beginning January 1 and ending 
     October 1 of any of calendar years 2000, 2001, or 2002--
       (i) 30 percent or more of the mares owned by the horse 
     breeder failed to conceive, miscarried, aborted, or otherwise 
     failed to produce a live healthy foal; or
       (ii) 30 percent or more of the mares boarded on a farm 
     owned, operated, or leased by the horse breeder failed to 
     conceive, miscarried, aborted, or otherwise failed to produce 
     a live healthy foal;
       (B) the horse breeder is unable to meet the financial 
     obligations, or pay the ordinary and necessary expenses, of 
     the horse breeder incurred in connection with breeding, 
     boarding, raising, training, or selling horses; and
       (C) the horse breeder is not able to obtain sufficient 
     credit elsewhere, in accordance with subtitle C of the 
     Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1961 et 
     seq.).
       (4) Amount.--
       (A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), the amount of 
     a loan made to a horse breeder under this subsection shall be 
     determined by the Secretary on the basis of the amount of 
     losses suffered by the horse breeder, and the financial needs 
     of the horse breeder, as a result of mare reproductive loss 
     syndrome.
       (B) Maximum amount.--The amount of a loan made to a horse 
     breeder under this subsection shall not exceed the maximum 
     amount of an emergency loan under section 324(a) of the 
     Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
     1964(a)).
       (5) Term.--
       (A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), the term for 
     repayment of a loan made to a horse breeder under this 
     subsection shall be determined by the Secretary based on the 
     ability of the horse breeder to repay the loan.
       (B) Maximum term.--The term of a loan made to a horse 
     breeder under this subsection shall not exceed 20 years.
       (6) Interest rate.--The interest rate for a loan made to a 
     horse breeder under this subsection shall be the interest 
     rate for emergency loans prescribed under section 324(b)(1) 
     of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
     1964(b)(1)).
       (7) Security.--A loan to a horse breeder under this 
     subsection shall be made on the security required for 
     emergency loans under section 324(d) of the Consolidated Farm 
     and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1964(d)).
       (8) Application.--To be eligible to obtain a loan under 
     this subsection, a horse breeder shall submit an application 
     for the loan to the Secretary not later than September 30, 
     2002.
       (9) Funding.--The Secretary shall carry out this subsection 
     using funds made available to make emergency loans under 
     subtitle C of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act 
     (7 U.S.C. 1961 et seq.).
       (10) Termination.--The authority provided by this 
     subsection to make a loan terminates effective September 30, 
     2003.
       Sec. 760. During fiscal year 2002, subsection (a)(2) of 
     section 508 of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508) 
     shall be applied as though the term ``and potatoes'' read as 
     follows: ``, potatoes, and sweet potatoes''.
       Sec. 761. Citrus Canker Eradication. (a) In General.--
     Section 810 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 
     Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
     2001 (114 Stat. 1549A-52) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a) by striking ``The'' and inserting 
     ``Subject to subsection (e), the''; and
       (2) in subsection (c), by striking ``2001'' and inserting 
     ``2002''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments in subsection (a) shall 
     take effect as if enacted on September 30, 2001.
       Sec. 762. Section 306(a)(20) of the Consolidated Farm and 
     Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926(a)(20)) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(E) Rural broadband.--Notwithstanding subparagraph (C), 
     the Secretary may make grants to state agencies for use by 
     regulatory commissions in states with rural communities 
     without local dial-up Internet access or broadband service to 
     establish a competitively, technologically neutral grant 
     program to telecommunications carriers or cable operators 
     that establish common carrier facilities and services which, 
     in the commission's determination, will result in the long-
     term availability to such communities of affordable broadband 
     services which are used for the provision of high speed 
     Internet access.''.
       Sec. 763. In accordance with the Farmland Protection 
     Program, a total of $720,000 shall be made available to 
     purchase conservation easements or other interests in land, 
     not to exceed 235 acres, in Adair, Green, and Taylor 
     Counties, Kentucky: Provided, That $490,000 of this amount 
     shall be from funds made available to the Conservation 
     Reserve Enhancement Program for the State of Kentucky.
       Sec. 764. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     City of Caldwell, Idaho, shall be eligible for grants and 
     loans administered by the Rural Housing Service of the United 
     States Department of Agriculture for a period not to exceed 
     one year from the date of enactment of this Act.
       Sec. 765. Section 8c(1) of the Agricultural Marketing 
     Agreement Act of 1937 is amended by adding the following 
     provision at the end of the penultimate sentence:

     ``The Secretary is authorized to implement a producer 
     allotment program and a handler withholding program under the 
     cranberry marketing order in the same crop year through 
     informal rulemaking based on a recommendation and supporting 
     economic analysis submitted by the Cranberry Marketing 
     Committee. Such recommendation and analysis shall be 
     submitted by the Committee no later than March 1 of each 
     year.''.
       Sec. 766. Section 11(f) of the Richard B. Russell National 
     School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1759a(f)) is amended by--
       (1) in paragraph (1)(E), by striking ``2001'' and inserting 
     ``2003''; and
       (2) in paragraph (2)--
       (A) by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the 
     following:
       ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall submit to the 
     Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
     and Forestry of the Senate--
       ``(i) not later than January 1, 2003, an interim report on 
     the activities of the State agencies receiving grants under 
     this subsection; and
       ``(ii) not later than January 1, 2004, a final report on 
     the activities of the State agencies receiving grants under 
     this subsection.''; and
       (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``report'' and 
     inserting ``reports''.
       Sec. 767. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     City of Mt. Vernon, Washington, shall be eligible for grants 
     and loans administered by the Rural Housing Service of the 
     United States Department of Agriculture for a period not to 
     exceed one year from the date of enactment of this Act.
       Sec. 768. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Natural Resources Conservation Service shall provide 
     financial and technical assistance to DuPage County, 
     Illinois, from funds available for the Watershed and Flood 
     Prevention Operations program, not to exceed $1,400,000.
       Sec. 769. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, from 
     funds previously appropriated for Watershed and Flood 
     Prevention Operations of the Natural Resource and 
     Conservation Service, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
     provide technical and financial assistance, but not to exceed 
     $1,000,000, in connection with a lake level stabilization 
     project carried out as part of local efforts to restore and 
     repair watersheds damaged by the 2001 tornado and storms in 
     Burnett and Washburn Counties, Wisconsin: Provided, That the 
     Secretary shall waive the cost share requirement of the local 
     sponsors of such efforts in Burnett and Washburn Counties, 
     Wisconsin.
       Sec. 770. Nothwithstanding any other provision of law, from 
     the funds appropriated to the Rural Utilities Service by this 
     Act, any current Rural Utilities Service borrower within 100 
     miles of New York City shall be eligible for additional 
     financing, refinancing, collateral flexibility, and deferrals 
     on an expedited basis without regard to population 
     limitations for any financially feasible telecommunications, 
     energy or water project that assists endeavors related to the 
     rehabilitation, prevention, relocation, site preparation, or 
     relief efforts resulting from the terrorist events of 
     September 11, 2001.
       Sec. 771. Section 17(r)(5) of the Richard B. Russell 
     National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1766(r)(5)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``six'' and inserting ``seven'';
       (2) by striking ``four'' and inserting ``five''; and
       (3) by inserting ``Illinois,'' after the first instance of 
     ``States shall be''.
       Sec. 772. (a) Extension.--Section 141 of the Agricultural 
     Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7251) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the following 
     new paragraph:
       ``(5) During the period beginning on January 1, 2002, and 
     ending on May 31, 2002, $9.90.''; and

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       (2) in subsection (h), by striking ``December 31, 2001'' 
     both places it appears and inserting ``May 31, 2002''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 142 of the Agricultural 
     Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7252) is repealed.
       Sec. 773. The Secretary shall transfer to the Southern 
     Minnesota Beet Sugar Co-op, refined sugar, acquired by the 
     Commodity Credit Corporation, in the amount of 10,000 tons to 
     compensate sugar producers in Minnesota for losses incurred 
     beyond those that may be compensated under existing programs 
     administered by the Secretary: Provided, That this amount of 
     sugar shall be provided in installments starting on the day 
     that is 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act and 
     on the first day of each of the following 7 months after that 
     day.
       Sec. 774. (a) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) The term ``eligible person'' means a person that--
       (A) owns a farm for which, irrespective of temporary 
     transfers or undermarketings, a basic quota or allotment for 
     eligible tobacco is established for the 2001 crop year under 
     part I of subtitle B of title III of the Agricultural 
     Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1311 et seq.);
       (B) controls the farm from which, under the quota or 
     allotment for the relevant period, eligible tobacco is 
     marketed, could have been marketed, or can be marketed, 
     taking into account temporary transfers; or
       (C) grows, could have grown, or can grow eligible tobacco 
     that is marketed, could have been marketed, or can be 
     marketed under the quota or allotment for the 2001 crop year, 
     taking into account temporary transfers.
       (2) The term ``eligible tobacco'' means each of the 
     following kinds of tobacco:
       (A) Fire-cured tobacco, comprising types 22 and 23.
       (B) Dark air-cured tobacco, comprising types 35 and 36.
       (C) Virginia sun-cured tobacco, comprising type 37.
       (b) Payments.--Not later than March 31, 2002, the Secretary 
     of Agriculture (referred to in this section as the 
     ``Secretary'') shall use funds of the Commodity Credit 
     Corporation to make payments under this section.
       (c) Poundage Payment Quantities.--For the purposes of this 
     section, in the case of each kind of eligible tobacco, 
     individual tobacco quotas and allotments shall be converted 
     to poundage payment quantities by multiplying--
       (1) the number of acres that may, irrespective of temporary 
     transfers or undermarketings, be devoted, without penalty, to 
     the production of the kind of tobacco under the allotment 
     under part I of subtitle B of title III of the Agricultural 
     Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1311 et seq.) for the 2001 
     crop year; by
       (2)(A) in the case of fire-cured tobacco (types 22 and 23), 
     2,601 pounds per acre;
       (B) in the case of dark air-cured tobacco (types 35 and 
     36), 2,337 pounds per acre; and
       (C) in the case of Virginia sun-cured tobacco (type 37), 
     1,512 pounds per acre.
       (d) Available Payment Amounts.--In the case of each kind of 
     eligible tobacco, the available payment amount for pounds of 
     a payment quantity under subsection (c) shall be equal to 10 
     cents per pound.
       (e) Division of Payments Among Eligible Persons.--Payments 
     available with respect to a pound of payment quantity, as 
     determined under subsection (d), shall be made available to 
     eligible persons in accordance with this subsection. In the 
     case of payments made available in a State under this section 
     for each kind of eligible tobacco, the Secretary shall 
     distribute (as determined by the Secretary)--
       (1) 33\1/3\ percent of the payments to eligible persons 
     that are owners described in subsection (a)(1)(A);
       (2) 33\1/3\ percent of the payments to eligible persons 
     that are controllers described in subsection (a)(1)(B); and
       (3) 33\1/3\ percent of the payments to eligible persons 
     that are growers described in subsection (a)(1)(C).
       (f) Standards.--In carrying out this section, the Secretary 
     shall use, to the maximum extent practicable, the same 
     standards for payments that were used for making payments 
     under section 204(b) of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act 
     of 2000 (7 U.S.C. 1421 note; Public Law 106-224).
       (g) Judicial Review.--A determination by the Secretary 
     under this section shall not be subject to judicial review.
       (h) Regulations.--As soon as practicable after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary and the Commodity Credit 
     Corporation, as appropriate, shall promulgate such 
     regulations as are necessary to implement this section. The 
     promulgation of the regulations and administration of this 
     section shall be made without regard to--
       (1) the notice and comment provisions of section 553 of 
     title 5, United States Code;
       (2) the Statement of Policy of the Secretary of Agriculture 
     effective July 24, 1971 (36 Fed. Reg. 13804), relating to 
     notices of proposed rulemaking and public participation in 
     rulemaking; and
       (3) chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code (commonly 
     known as the ``Paperwork Reduction Act'').
       (i) Congressional Review of Agency Rulemaking.--In carrying 
     out subsection (h), the Secretary shall use the authority 
     provided under section 808 of title 5, United States Code.
       Sec. 775. The Competitive, Special, and Facilities Research 
     Grant Act (7 U.S.C. 450i) is amended:
       (1) in subsection (b)(3) by adding at the end the 
     following:
       ``(G) Grants may be awarded to improve research 
     capabilities in States (as defined in the National 
     Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 
     1977, as amended) in which institutions have been less 
     successful in receiving funding under this subsection, based 
     on a three-year rolling average of funding levels.''; and
       (2) in subsections (b)(10)(C) by striking ``and (F) of 
     paragraph (3) for awarding grants in'' and inserting ``, (F), 
     and (G) of paragraph (3) for''.
       Sec. 776. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to pay the salaries of personnel of the Department of 
     Agriculture who carry out the programs authorized by section 
     524(a) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1524) in 
     excess of a total of $4,000,000 for all such programs for 
     fiscal year 2002.
       Sec. 777. Section 501 of the Agricultural Trade Development 
     and Assistance Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1737) is amended--
       (1) in the section heading, by inserting ``JOHN OGONOWSKI'' 
     before ``FARMER-TO-FARMER PROGRAM''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(d) Designation of Program.--The program of farmer-to-
     farmer assistance authorized by this section shall be known 
     and designated as the `John Ogonowski Farmer-to-Farmer 
     Program'.''.
       This Act may be cited as the ``Agriculture, Rural 
     Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002''.
       And the Senate agree to the same.

     Henry Bonilla,
     James T. Walsh,
     Jack Kingston,
     Tom Latham,
     Jo Ann Emerson,
     Virgil H. Goode, Jr.,
     Ray LaHood,
     C.W. Bill Young,
     Marcy Kaptur,
     Rosa L. DeLauro,
     Maurice D. Hinchey,
     Sam Farr,
     Allen Boyd,
     David R. Obey,
                                Managers on the Part of the House.

     Herb Kohl,
     Tom Harkin,
     Byron L. Dorgan,
     Dianne Feinstein,
     Richard J. Durbin,
     Tim Johnson,
     Robert C. Byrd,
     Thad Cochran,
     Arlen Specter,
     Christopher S. Bond,
     Mitch McConnell,
     Conrad Burns,
     Larry Craig,
     Ted Stevens,
                               Managers on the Part of the Senate.

       JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE

       The managers on the part of the House and Senate at the 
     conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the 
     amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 2330) making 
     appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 
     Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the 
     fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other 
     purposes, submit the following joint statement to the House 
     and Senate in explanation of the effect of the action agreed 
     upon by the managers and recommended in the accompanying 
     conference report.

                        Congressional Directives

       The statement of the managers remains silent on provisions 
     that were in both the House and Senate bills that remain 
     unchanged by this conference agreement, except as noted in 
     this statement of the managers.
       The conferees agree that executive branch wishes cannot 
     substitute for Congress' own statements as to the best 
     evidence of congressional intentions--that is, the official 
     reports of the Congress. The conferees further point out that 
     funds in this Act must be used for the purposes for which 
     appropriated, as required by section 1301 of title 31 of the 
     United States Code, which provides: ``Appropriations shall be 
     applied only to the objects for which the appropriations were 
     made except as otherwise provided by law.''
       The House and Senate report language that is not changed by 
     the conference is approved by the committee of conference. 
     The statement of the managers, while repeating some report 
     language for emphasis, does not intend to negate the language 
     referred to above unless expressly provided herein.
       In cases in which the House or the Senate have directed the 
     submission of a report, such report is to be submitted to 
     both the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
       The conferees encourage the consideration of grant and loan 
     applications for various entities. The conferees expect the 
     Department only to approve those applications judged 
     meritorious when subjected to the established review process.

                     TITLE I--AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS

                 Production, Processing, and Marketing

                        Office of the Secretary

       The conference agreement provides $2,992,000 for the Office 
     of the Secretary as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $3,015,000 as proposed by the House.
       The conferees strongly support the extension of the Global 
     Food for Education Initiative program for fiscal year 2002. 
     While both the House and Senate Committee reports 
     demonstrated strong support for the program, the Department 
     has still not announced its intentions for fiscal year 2002.

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     The conferees urge the Secretary in the strongest possible 
     terms to use available authorities to continue the Global 
     Food for Education Initiative for fiscal year 2002.
       The Secretary shall report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations no later than March 1, 2002 on USDA's plans 
     for the National Finance Center.
       The conferees have recommended $40,000,000 under 
     ``Agricultural Research Service, Buildings and Facilities'' 
     to incrementally fund a long-term project for consolidation 
     and replacement of laboratory facilities in Ames, IA. In 
     addition, the President has proposed $14,081,000 for the 
     Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service for relocation of 
     facilities in Ames, IA, and this proposal will be considered 
     in subsequent appropriations action related to emergency 
     expenses to respond to the September 11, 2001, terrorist 
     attacks on the United States. The conferees are concerned 
     about the management of this very substantial effort 
     involving two agencies of the Department and, therefore, 
     direct the Office of the Secretary to submit a report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations by March 1, 2002, that will 
     include current estimates of full costs and the proposed 
     construction schedule for this project as well as the 
     Department's management plan for coordinating the efforts of 
     ARS and APHIS in the performance of this long range 
     construction program.
       The conferees are seriously concerned that domestic lamb 
     prices have fallen by 50 percent or more since June 2001, 
     causing sheep producers to incur unprecedented losses which 
     are unexplained by historic pricing patterns. The conferees 
     direct the Secretary to conduct a study of lamb prices in the 
     U.S. including comparison of live lamb prices to carcass and 
     boxed lamb prices for 2001, determination of the spreads 
     between these categories, and documentation of what market 
     factors are affecting and establishing live lamb and carcass 
     prices since January. A report on this study shall be 
     submitted to the Committees on Appropriations and Agriculture 
     by February 1, 2002, and this report should also include the 
     degree and influence, if any, that imports, concentration, 
     and mandatory price reporting have had on the lamb market 
     this year as compared to the past five years.
       The conferees strongly encourage the Secretary, in direct 
     consultation with the wheat industry, to review the need for 
     regulating Karnal bunt as a pest. The conferees are also 
     concerned with the financial impacts incurred by producers 
     and handlers as a result of Karnal bunt and direct the 
     Secretary to continue compensation activities with all 
     affected entities.
       The conferees are concerned with the severe drought 
     conditions along the U.S./Mexico border in the area of the 
     Rio Grande watershed and Mexico's continuing failure to meet 
     its water obligations to the area as delineated in the 1944 
     water treaty. The conferees are concerned with Mexico's lack 
     of progress in implementing a repayment plan for its water 
     deficit under this treaty, and the resulting negative effect 
     on U.S. agricultural production. The conferees direct the 
     Secretary to provide a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House and Senate by March 1, 2002, 
     detailing the value of the annual loss of U.S. agricultural 
     production resulting from this deficit and the Department's 
     authorities and plans to assist agricultural interests in the 
     Rio Grande watershed with the financial ramifications of 
     Mexico's water debt.
       Ohio School Food Service Authorities continue to work with 
     other State agencies and the Department to develop an 
     inspection system that ensures safety while maximizing the 
     number of eligible children receiving the benefit of the 
     program. The conferees direct the Department to continue to 
     work towards developing a pilot project for school food 
     safety inspections in Ohio, and to keep the Committees 
     advised of any action on this matter.
       The conferees are aware that certain states have meat and 
     poultry inspection standards that are as stringent as Federal 
     standards, and that those states would like to be able to 
     ship state-inspected meat interstate. The conferees encourage 
     the Department to consider developing a limited pilot project 
     that would allow for such shipment, involving the state of 
     Ohio. The conferees direct the Department to provide a report 
     to the Committees on Appropriations before the fiscal year 
     2003 appropriations hearings regarding the feasibility of 
     such a pilot project, including the legal requirements and a 
     proposed design.

                          Executive Operations


                            chief economist

       The conference agreement provides $7,704,000 for the Chief 
     Economist as proposed by the House instead of $7,648,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.


                       national appeals division

       The conference agreement provides $12,869,000 for the 
     National Appeals Division as proposed by the House instead of 
     $12,766,000 as proposed by the Senate.


                 office of budget and program analysis

       The conference agreement provides $7,041,000 for the Office 
     of Budget and Program Analysis as proposed by the House 
     instead of $6,978,000 as proposed by the Senate.

                Office of the Chief Information Officer

       The conference agreement provides $10,029,000 for the 
     Office of the Chief Information Officer instead of 
     $10,325,000 as proposed by the House and $10,261,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.


                      COMMON COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

       The conferees do not agree that within the amount 
     appropriated for common computing environment, $4,500,000 is 
     for data storage infrastructure hardware and software, and of 
     which $1,500,000 is for the same data storage technology for 
     the combined administrative management system (CAMS) as 
     proposed by the House. The conferees do not direct the use of 
     a specific amount within the $4,500,000 available for data 
     storage infrastructure, but note that it should be used for 
     coordination with CAMS as proposed by the Senate.

                 Office of the Chief Financial Officer

       The conference agreement provides $5,384,000 for the Office 
     of the Chief Financial Officer as proposed by the House 
     instead of $5,335,000 as proposed by the Senate.

          Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration

       The conference agreement provides $647,000 for the Office 
     of the Assistant Secretary for Administration as proposed by 
     the Senate instead of $652,000 as proposed by the House.

        Agriculture Buildings and Facilities and Rental Payments

       The conference agreement provides $187,647,000 for 
     agriculture buildings and facilities and rental payments 
     instead of $177,647,000 as proposed by the House and 
     $187,581,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The conferees expect that in the event an agency within the 
     Department should require modification of space needs, any 
     transfers of funds for such modification should occur only 
     between the agency requiring the modification and this 
     account. The conferees also note that such transfers shall 
     not exceed 5 percent of the funds made available for space 
     rental and related costs to or from this account.
       The conference agreement provides $31,438,000 for buildings 
     operations as proposed by the House, and $25,943,000 for the 
     Strategic Space Plan as proposed by the Senate.

                      Departmental Administration

       The conference agreement provides $37,079,000 for 
     Departmental Administration as proposed by the Senate instead 
     of $37,398,000 as proposed by the House.


              OUTREACH FOR SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED FARMERS

       The conference agreement provides $3,243,000 for Outreach 
     for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers instead of $2,993,000 as 
     proposed by the House and $3,493,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate.

     Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations

       The conference agreement provides $3,718,000 for the Office 
     of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations as 
     proposed by the House instead of $3,684,000 as proposed by 
     the Senate.
       The conference agreement allows funds to be transferred to 
     the agencies, but does not prescribe the amount of funds to 
     be transferred. The conferees direct the Department, within 
     30 days of enactment, to notify the Committees on the 
     allocation of these funds, including an explanation for any 
     agency-by-agency distribution of these funds.

                        Office of Communications

       The conference agreement provides $8,894,000 for the Office 
     of Communications as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $8,975,000 as proposed by the House.

                    Office of the Inspector General

       The conference agreement provides $70,839,000 for the 
     Office of the Inspector General as proposed by the Senate 
     instead of $71,429,000 as proposed by the House.

                     Office of the General Counsel

       The conference agreement provides $32,627,000 for the 
     Office of the General Counsel as proposed by the Senate 
     instead of $32,937,000 as proposed by the House.

  Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics

       The conference agreement provides $573,000 for the Office 
     of the Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics 
     as proposed by the Senate instead of $578,000 as proposed by 
     the House.

                       Economic Research Service

       The conference agreement provides $67,200,000 for the 
     Economic Research Service as proposed by the Senate instead 
     of $67,620,000 as proposed by the House.
       The conferees provide $9,195,000 for food program studies 
     and evaluations under ERS, as proposed by the House, instead 
     of $9,168,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The conferees direct that funding provided for food program 
     studies and evaluations work must be used in accordance with 
     the statutes governing Federal nutrition assistance programs. 
     These statutes, Section 17 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977, 
     Section 6 of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch 
     Act, and Section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, 
     authorize the use of funds to evaluate and improve the 
     effectiveness of Federal nutrition assistance programs.

                National Agricultural Statistics Service

       The conference agreement provides $113,786,000 for the 
     National Agricultural Statistics Service as proposed by the 
     Senate instead of $114,546,000 as proposed by the House. 
     Within that amount, the conferees make available $25,350,000 
     for the Census of Agriculture as proposed by the Senate 
     instead of $25,456,000 as proposed by the House.

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                     Agricultural Research Service


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The conference agreement provides $979,464,000 for 
     Agricultural Research Service, Salaries and Expenses, instead 
     of $971,365,000 as proposed by the House and $999,438,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement continues the fiscal year 2001 
     level of funding for all research projects proposed to be 
     terminated in the President's budget and for salaries and 
     administrative expenses of the Agricultural Research Service. 
     With respect to additional funding for various research 
     activities, as specified in either the House or Senate 
     reports accompanying the fiscal year 2002 appropriations 
     bill, the conference agreement provides eighty percent of the 
     increase provided. Where increased funding is provided by 
     both the House and Senate for the same research activity, the 
     conference agreement provides funding at eighty percent of 
     the higher level.
       The conferees expect that research objectives related to 
     woody genomics and breeding for the Southeast will be 
     coordinated with the priorities of the Floriculture and 
     Nursery Research Initiative as well as associated industry 
     input. Further, the conferees expect that close cooperation 
     will be established and maintained among the nursery and 
     floral industry, the Agricultural Research Service, the 
     University of Tennessee, and the Tennessee State University/
     ARS Nursery Crop Research Station in McMinnville to avoid 
     duplication of effort.
       Increased funding provided by the conference agreement for 
     residue management in sugarcane is to be carried out at the 
     Houma, LA, worksite.
       Funding provided by the conference agreement for biobased 
     products and bioenergy in New Orleans, LA, may be used for 
     Nicholls State University to develop methods of using 
     agricultural byproducts to decrease electricity costs.
       Increased funding provided by the conference agreement for 
     Formosan subterranean termite research is available to expand 
     the test area to a larger portion of the French Quarter of 
     New Orleans, LA, and for detection and eradication research 
     using directed energy technologies.
       The conference agreement includes an increase above the 
     fiscal year 2001 level for Tropical and Subtropical 
     Agricultural Research at the U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural 
     Research Center in Hawaii. The conferees direct the ARS to 
     redirect existing funds allocated to the University of Hawaii 
     related to Non-Toxic Control of Tephritid and Other Insects 
     and Environmental Effects of Tephritid Fruit Fly Control and 
     Eradication in order to make additional funds available in 
     conjunction with the Center and the University of Hawaii at 
     Hilo and the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
       The conferees direct the Agricultural Research Service to 
     submit a feasibility study to the Committees on 
     Appropriations by March 1, 2002, on facility needs at the 
     Woodward, OK, location, including the need for a conference 
     center, and its plans to meet those requirements.


                        buildings and facilities

       The conference agreement provides $118,987,000 for the 
     Agricultural Research Service, Buildings and Facilities, 
     instead of $78,862,000 as proposed by the House and 
     $99,625,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The following table reflects the conference agreement:

Arizona, Maricopa: U.S. Arid Land Agricultural Research Cente$8,400,000
California:
  Western Human Nutrition Research Center, Davis..............5,000,000
  Western Regional Research Center, Albany....................3,800,000
District of Columbia: U.S. National Arboretum.................4,600,000
Hawaii, Hilo: Pacific Basin Agriculture Research Center.......3,000,000
Idaho, Aberdeen: Advanced Genetics Laboratory...................500,000
Illinois, Peoria: National Center for Agricultural Utilization6,500,000
Iowa, Ames: National Animal Disease Center...................40,000,000
Kansas, Manhattan: Grain Marketing and Production Research Cen3,000,000
Maine, Orono/Franklin: Northeast Marine Cold Water Marine Aquaculture 
  Center......................................................3,000,000
Maryland:
  National Agricultural Library...............................1,800,000
  Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.....................3,000,000
Minnesota, St. Paul: Cereal Disease Laboratory..................300,000
Mississippi:
  Horticultural Laboratory for the Gulf Coast, Poplarville......800,000
  National Biological Control Laboratory, Stoneville..........8,400,000
New Mexico, Las Cruces: Jornado Experimental Range Management Research 
  Laboratory....................................................475,000
New York: Plum Island Animal Disease Center...................3,762,000
Oklahoma, Woodward: Southern Plains Range Research Station....1,500,000
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Eastern Regional Research Center..5,000,000
South Carolina, Charleston: U.S. Vegetable Laboratory.........4,500,000
South Dakota, Brookings: Northern Grain Insects Research Laborat850,000
Utah, Logan: Poisonous Plant Research Laboratory..............5,600,000
West Virginia, Leetown: National Center for Cool and Cold Water 
  Aquaculture.................................................2,200,000
Wisconsin, Madison: Cereal Crops Research Laboratory..........3,000,000
                                                       ________________
                                                       
  Total.....................................................118,987,000

       The conference agreement includes a direction to the ARS to 
     conduct and provide to the Committees a feasibility study by 
     March 1, 2002, on the establishment of a Center for Renewable 
     Resources at Morgantown, West Virginia, instead of Jackson's 
     Mill, West Virginia, as proposed by the Senate.
       The conferees are aware of facility needs associated with 
     the Human Nutrition Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and 
     that an opportunity now exists for the acquisition of realty 
     in the vicinity of the Center. The conferees direct the 
     agency to proceed with acquisition of this property from 
     within available funds of the Center.

      Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service


                   research and education activities

       The conference agreement provides $542,062,000 for research 
     and education activities instead of $507,452,000 as proposed 
     by the House and $542,842,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The following table reflects the conference agreement:


                   Research and education activities

                       [In thousands of dollars]

                                                             Conference
                                                              agreement
Research Activities:
  Payments under the Hatch Act.................................$180,148
  Cooperative Forestry Research (McIntire-Stennis)...............21,884
  Payments to 1890 Colleges and Tuskegee University..............34,604
                                                               ==========
_______________________________________________________________________

Special Research Grants (P.L. 89-106):
  Advanced genetic technologies (KY)................................600
  Advanced spatial technologies (MS)................................978
  Aegilops cylindricum (jointed goatgrass) (WA).....................367
  Agricultural diversification (HI).................................128
  Agricultural diversity/Red River Corridor (MN, ND)................400
  Agriculture-based industrial lubricants (IA)......................  0
  Agriculture water usage (GA)......................................293
  Agroecology (MD)..................................................400
  Air quality (TX)..................................................640
  Alliance for food protection (GA, NE).............................293
  Alternative crops for arid lands (TX).............................100
  Alternative nutrient management (VT)..............................186
  Alternative salmon products (AK)..................................631
  Alternative uses for tobacco (MD).................................360
  Animal science food safety consortium (AR, IA, KS)..............1,598
  Apple fire blight (MI, NY)........................................489
  Aquaculture (AR)..................................................232
  Aquaculture (FL)..................................................490
  Aquaculture (ID, WA)..............................................600
  Aquaculture (LA)..................................................322
  Aquaculture (MS)..................................................579
  Aquaculture (NC)..................................................293
  Aquaculture (VA)..................................................100
  Aquaculture product and marketing development (WV)................733
  Armillaria root rot (MI)..........................................160
  Asparagus technology and production (WA)..........................260
  Babcock Institute (WI)............................................588
  Beef technology transfer (MO).....................................294
  Biomass-based energy research (OK, MS)............................960
  Biotechnology (NC)................................................306
  Blocking anhydrous methamphetamine production (IA)................242
  Bovine tuberculosis (MI)..........................................318
  Brucellosis vaccine (MT)..........................................485
  Center for rural studies (VT).....................................240
  Chesapeake Bay agroecology (MD)...................................280
  Citrus canker (FL)................................................490
  Citrus tristeza...................................................725
  Competitiveness of agriculture products (WA)......................665
  Cool season legume research (ID, WA)..............................321
  Cotton fiber quality (GA).........................................400
  Cranberry/blueberry (MA)..........................................172
  Cranberry/blueberry disease and breeding (NJ).....................216
  Crop diversification (MO, ND).....................................800
  Crop genomics (MS)................................................640
  Crop integration and production (SD)..............................200
  Dairy and meat goat research (TX)................................. 63
  Dairy farm profitability (PA).....................................294

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  Delta rural revitalization (MS)...................................201
  Designing foods for health (TX)...................................690
  Diaprepes/root weevil (FL)........................................400
  Drought mitigation (NE)...........................................196
  Ecosystems (AL)...................................................489
  Efficient irrigation (NM, TX)...................................1,176
  Environmental biotechnology (RI)..................................400
  Environmental horticulture (FL)...................................400
  Environmental research (NY).......................................391
  Environmental risk factors/cancer (NY)............................222
  Environmentally-safe products (VT)................................240
  Exotic pest diseases (CA).......................................1,600
  Expanded wheat pasture (OK).......................................286
  Farm injuries and illnesses (NC)..................................278
  Feed barley for rangeland cattle (MT).............................833
  Feedstock conversion (SD).........................................560
  Fish and shellfish technologies (VA)..............................465
  Floriculture (HI).................................................400
  Food and Agriculture Policy Research Institute (IA, MO).........1,000
  Food irradiation (IA).............................................245
  Food Marketing Policy Center (CT).................................484
  Food processing center (NE)....................................... 42
  Food quality (AK).................................................342
  Food safety (AL)..................................................608
  Food safety (OK)..................................................400
  Food safety research consortium (NY)..............................800
  Food safety risk assessment (ND)..................................800
  Food security (WA)................................................400
  Food Systems Research Group (WI)..................................490
  Forages for advancing livestock production (KY)...................367
  Forestry (AR).....................................................512
  Generic commodity promotions, research and evaluation (NY)........194
  Global change/ultraviolet radiation.............................1,402
  Grain sorghum (KS)................................................104
  Grass seed cropping systems for sustainable agriculture (ID, OR, 
    WA).............................................................414
  Hoop barns (IA)...................................................200
  Human nutrition (IA)..............................................463
  Human nutrition (LA)..............................................800
  Human nutrition (NY)..............................................609
  Hydroponic tomato production (OH).................................100
  Illinois-Missouri Alliance for Biotechnology....................1,214
  Improved dairy management practices (PA)..........................389
  Improved early detection of crop diseases (NC)....................194
  Improved fruit practices (MI).....................................239
  Increasing shelf life of agricultural commodities (ID)............640
  Infectious disease research (CO)..................................640
  Institute for Food Science & Engineering (AR)...................1,222
  Integrated production systems (OK)................................176
  Intelligent quality sensor for food safety (ND)...................360
  International arid lands consortium...............................484
  Iowa Biotechnology Consortium...................................1,530
  Livestock and Dairy Policy (NY, TX)...............................558
  Livestock genome sequencing (IL)..................................400
  Lowbush blueberry research (ME)...................................254
  Maple research (VT)...............................................120
  Meadowfoam (OR)...................................................293
  Michigan biotechnology consortium.................................481
  Midwest Advanced Food Manufacturing Alliance......................452
  Midwest agricultural products (IA)................................632
  Midwest poultry consortium (IA)...................................400
  Milk safety (PA)..................................................600
  Minor use animal drugs (IR-4).....................................588
  Molluscan shellfish (OR)..........................................391
  Montana Sheep Institute...........................................400
  Multi-commodity research (OR).....................................356
  Multi-cropping strategies for aquaculture (HI)....................124
  National beef cattle genetic evaluation consortium (NY)...........343
  National biological impact assessment program.....................248
  Nematode resistance genetic engineering (NM)......................147
  Nevada arid rangelands initiative (NV)............................400
  New crop opportunities (AK).......................................485
  New crop opportunities (KY).......................................735
  Non-food uses of agricultural products (NE)....................... 64
  Nursery, greenhouse, turf specialties (AL)........................320
  Oil resources from desert plants (NM).............................196
  Organic waste utilization (NM)....................................100
  Oyster post harvest treatment (FL)................................400
  Ozone air quality (CA)............................................400
  Pasture and forage research (UT)..................................244
  Peach tree short life (SC)........................................175
  Pest control alternatives (SC)....................................280
  Phytophthora root rot (NM)........................................135
  Phytoremediation plant research (OH)..............................280
  Pierce's disease (CA)...........................................1,960
  Plant, drought, and disease resistance gene cataloging (NM).......244
  Potato research.................................................1,568
  Precision agriculture (KY)........................................733
  Preharvest food safety (KS).......................................208
  Preservation and processing research (OK).........................221
  Protein utilization (IA)..........................................186
  Rangeland ecosystems (NM).........................................320
  Red snapper research (AL).........................................960
  Regional barley gene mapping project..............................760
  Regionalized implications of farm programs (MO, TX)...............287
  Ruminant nutrition consortium (MT, ND, SD, WY)....................400
  Rural Development Centers (PA, IA, ND, MS, OR, LA)................560
  Rural Policies Research Institute (NE, IA, MO)..................1,040
  Russian wheat aphid (CO)..........................................320
  Satsuma orange research (AL)......................................800
  Seafood and aquaculture harvesting, processing, and marketing (MS)298
  Seafood harvesting, processing, and marketing (AK)..............1,142
  Seafood safety (MA)...............................................400
  Small fruit research (OR, WA, ID).................................392
  Soil and environmental quality (DE)...............................120
  Southwest consortium for plant genetics and water resources.......392
  Soybean cyst nematode (MO)........................................686
  Soybean research (IL).............................................800
  STEEP--water quality in the Pacific Northwest.....................588
  Sustainable agriculture (CA)......................................400
  Sustainable agriculture (MI)......................................435
  Sustainable agriculture and natural resources (PA)................123
  Sustainable agriculture systems (NE).............................. 59
  Sustainable beef supply (MT)....................................1,000
  Sustainable engineered materials from renewable resources (VA)....400
  Sustainable pest management for dryland wheat (MT)................452
  Swine and other animal waste management (NC)......................489
  Synthetic gene technology (OH)....................................168
  Technological development of renewable resources (MO).............294
  Tillage, silviculture, waste management (LA)......................400
  Tomato wilt virus (GA)............................................244
  Tri-state joint peanut research (AL)..............................600
  Tropical aquaculture (FL).........................................194
  Tropical and subtropical research/T STAR........................8,000
  Value-added product development from agricultural resources (MT)..324
  Value-added products (IL).........................................120
  Viticulture consortium (NY, CA, PA).............................1,600
  Water conservation (KS)........................................... 79
  Water use efficiency and water quality enhancements (GA)..........480
  Weed control (ND).................................................426
  Wetland plants (LA)...............................................587
  Wheat genetic research (KS).......................................255
  Wheat sawfly research (MT)........................................505
  Wood utilization (AK, ID, ME, MI, MN, MS, NC, OR, TN)...........5,670
  Wool research (TX, MT, WY)........................................294
                                                             __________
                                                             
    Subtotal, Special Grants.....................................97,008
                                                               ==========
_______________________________________________________________________

Improved pest control:
  Emerging pests/critical issues....................................200
  Expert IPM decision support system................................177
  Integrated pest management......................................2,725
  IR-4 minor crop pest management................................10,485
  Pest management alternatives....................................1,619
                                                             __________
                                                             
    Subtotal, Improved pest control..............................15,206
                                                               ==========
_______________________________________________________________________

National Research Initiative (NRI) competitive grants...........120,452
                                                               ==========
_______________________________________________________________________

Animal health and disease (sec. 1433).............................5,098
Alternative crops:
  Canola............................................................693
  Hesperaloe and other natural products from desert plants..........231
Critical Agricultural Materials Act.................................720
1994 Institutions research program..................................998
Institution challenge grants......................................4,340
Graduate fellowships grants.......................................2,993
Multicultural scholars program......................................998
Hispanic education partnership grants.............................3,492
Capacity building grants (1890 institutions)......................9,479
Payments to the 1994 Institutions.................................1,549
Alaska Native-serving and Native Hawaiian-serving Institutions 
  education grants................................................2,997
Secondary agriculture education...................................1,000
Sustainable agriculture research and education/SARE..............12,500
Aquaculture centers (sec. 1475)...................................3,996
                                                               ==========
_______________________________________________________________________

Federal Administration:
  Agriculture-based industrial lubricants (IA)......................360
  Agriculture development in the American Pacific...................552

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  Agriculture waste utilization (WV)................................600
  Agriculture water policy (GA).....................................600
  Alternative fuels characterization laboratory (ND)................294
  Animal waste management (OK)......................................320
  Aquaculture (OH)..................................................400
  Biotechnology (MS)................................................680
  Botanical research (UT)...........................................640
  Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (IA)................600
  Center for Innovative Food Technology (OH)........................765
  Center for North America Studies (TX).............................200
  Cotton research (TX)..............................................880
  Data Information System.........................................2,078
  Feed efficiency (WV)..............................................160
  Fruit and vegetable market analysis (AZ, MO)......................340
  Geographic information system...................................1,199
  Germplasm development in forage grasses (OH)......................100
  Livestock marketing information center (CO).......................196
  Mariculture (NC)..................................................360
  Mississippi Valley State University...............................633
  National Center for Peanut Competitiveness (GA)...................391
  Office of Extramural Programs.....................................439
  Pay costs and FERS..............................................1,386
  Peer Panels.......................................................342
  PM-10 air quality study (WA)......................................426
  Precision agriculture/Tennessee valley research and extension 
    center (AL).....................................................480
  Produce pricing (AZ).............................................. 76
  Salmon quality standards (AK).....................................120
  Shrimp aquaculture (AZ, HI, LA, MA, MS, SC, TX).................4,214
  Sustainable agriculture development (OH)..........................490
  Urban silviculture (NY)...........................................232
  Water pollutants (WV).............................................206
  Water quality (IL)................................................341
  Water quality (ND)................................................417
  Wetland plants (WV)...............................................160
                                                             __________
                                                             
    Subtotal, Federal Administration.............................21,676
                                                               ==========
_______________________________________________________________________

    Total, Research and Education Activities....................542,062

       The conference agreement does not include bill language 
     which provides funds for payments to land-grant colleges of 
     which $998,000 shall be made available to West Virginia State 
     College in Institute, West Virginia, as proposed by the 
     House.
       The conference agreement includes bill language which 
     provides funds for payments to land-grant colleges of which 
     $1,507,496 shall be made available only for the purpose of 
     ensuring that each institution shall receive no less than 
     $1,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement does not include bill language 
     regarding a grant for Oklahoma State University and its 
     industrial partners to develop chemical and biological 
     sensors as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement does not include bill language 
     regarding the Environmental Biotechnology initiative at the 
     University of Rhode Island as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement does not include bill language 
     regarding grants for authorized competitive research programs 
     related to enhancement of the nitrogen-fixing ability and 
     efficiency of plants as proposed by the House.
       The conference agreement includes bill language which 
     provides $2,997,000 to individual eligible institutions or 
     consortia of institutions in Alaska and Hawaii instead of 
     $2,993,000 for such purposes as proposed by the House and 
     $3,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       It is the intent of the conferees that the funds provided 
     for wood utilization research be distributed to existing 
     centers on a basis proportionate to each center's share of 
     the fiscal year 2001 total program funding.
       The conference agreement includes $1,199,000 for the 
     Geographic Information System Program. The conferees expect 
     that the amount provided shall be made available for program 
     activities of entities in the same areas as the fiscal year 
     2001 level on a proportional basis and that program 
     management costs will be kept at a minimum and any remaining 
     funds will be distributed to the sites.


                          EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

       The conference agreement provides $439,473,000 for 
     extension activities instead of $436,029,000 as proposed by 
     the House and $433,546,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The following table reflects the conference agreement:


                          Extension activities

                       [In thousands of dollars]

                                                             Conference
                                                              agreement
Smith-Lever sections 3(b) and 3(c).............................$275,940
Smith-Lever section 3(d):
  Farm safety.....................................................5,250
  Food and nutrition education...................................58,566
  Indian reservation agents.......................................1,996
  Pest management................................................10,759
  Rural development centers.........................................953
  Sustainable agriculture.........................................4,750
  Youth at risk...................................................8,481
  Youth farm safety education and certification.....................499
Renewable Resources Extension Act.................................4,093
1890 Colleges and Tuskegee University............................31,181
1890 facilities grants...........................................13,500
Rural health and safety education.................................2,622
Extension services at the 1994 institutions.......................3,273
                                                             __________
                                                             
    Subtotal....................................................421,863
                                                               ==========
_______________________________________________________________________

Federal Administration:
  Ag in the classroom...............................................600
  Agricultural telecommunications (NY)..............................339
  Avian conservation (PA)...........................................320
  Beef producers improvement (AR)...................................193
  Botanical garden initiative (IL)..................................232
  Conservation technology transfer (WI).............................490
  Dairy education (IA)..............................................232
  Delta Teachers Academy............................................  0
  Diabetes detection, prevention (WA)...............................906
  Efficient irrigation (NM, TX)...................................1,960
  Extension specialist (MS).........................................100
  Family farm beef industry network (OH)..........................1,372
  Food Animal Residue Avoidance Database/FARAD......................800
  Food product development (AK).....................................280
  Health education leadership (KY)..................................800
  Income enhancement demonstration (OH).............................241
  Integrated cow/calf management (IA)...............................294
  Iowa vitality center..............................................280
  National Center for Agriculture Safety (IA).......................196
  Pilot technology transfer (WI)....................................160
  Pilot technology transfer (OK, MS)................................319
  Potato pest management (WI).......................................396
  Range improvement (NM)............................................240
  Rural development (AK)............................................637
  Rural development (NM)............................................363
  Rural rehabilitation (GA).........................................240
  Urban horticulture (WI)...........................................200
  Wood biomass as an alternative farm product (NY)..................193
  General administration and pay..................................5,227
                                                             __________
                                                             
    Total, Federal Administration................................17,610
                                                               ==========
_______________________________________________________________________

    Total, Extension Activities.................................439,473

       The conference agreement includes language which permits 
     $3,600,000 of the amount available under Smith-Lever 3(b) and 
     3(c) to provide funding for the National 4-H Program 
     Centennial Initiative as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement does not include bill language 
     which provides funds for payments to land-grant colleges of 
     which $998,000 shall be made available to West Virginia State 
     College in Institute, West Virginia, as proposed by the 
     House.
       The conference agreement includes bill language which 
     provides funds for payments to land-grant colleges of which 
     $1,724,884 shall be made available only for the purpose of 
     ensuring that each institution shall receive no less than 
     $1,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement provides $5,250,000 for farm 
     safety, of which $4,050,000 is for the AgrAbility project.


                         INTEGRATED ACTIVITIES

       The conference agreement provides $42,853,000 for 
     integrated activities instead of $43,355,000 as proposed by 
     the House and $42,350,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The following table reflects the conference agreement:


                         Integrated activities

                       [In thousands of dollars]

                                                             Conference
                                                              agreement
Integrated Research, Education and Extension Competitive Grants 
    Program:
  Water Quality.................................................$12,971
  Food Safety....................................................14,967
  Pesticide Impact Assessment.....................................4,531
  Crops at Risk from FQPA Implementation..........................1,497
  FQPA Risk Mitigation Program for Major Food Crop Systems........4,889
  Methyl Bromide Transition Program...............................2,498
  Organic Transition Program......................................1,500
                                                             __________
                                                             
    Total, Integrated Activities.................................42,853

  Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs

       The conference agreement provides $654,000 for the Office 
     of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs 
     as proposed by the Senate instead of $660,000 as proposed by 
     the House.

               Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The conference agreement provides $620,490,000, of which 
     $84,813,000 is derived from agricultural quarantine 
     inspection user fees, for the Animal and Plant Health 
     Inspection Service (APHIS) instead of $587,386,000 as 
     proposed by the House and $602,754,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate.
       The following table reflects the conference agreement:

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               Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

                       [In thousands of dollars]

                                                             Conference
                                                              agreement
Pest and Disease Exclusion:
  Agricultural quarantine inspection............................$47,254
  User fees......................................................84,813
                                                             __________
                                                             
    Subtotal, AQI...............................................132,067
                                                               ==========
_______________________________________________________________________

  Cattle ticks....................................................6,232
  Foot-and-mouth disease..........................................3,839
  Fruit fly exclusion and detection..............................36,818
  Import-export...................................................8,132
  Screwworm......................................................30,557
  Trade issues resolution management.............................11,367
  Tropical bont tick................................................415
                                                             __________
                                                             
    Total, Pest and Disease Exclusion...........................229,427
                                                               ==========
_______________________________________________________________________

Plant and Animal Health Monitoring:
  Animal health monitoring and surveillance......................70,931
  Animal and plant health regulatory enforcement..................8,101
  Emergency management system.....................................4,044
  Pest detection..................................................6,844
                                                             __________
                                                             
    Total, Plant and Animal Health Monitoring....................89,920
                                                               ==========
_______________________________________________________________________

Pest and Disease Management:
  Aquaculture.....................................................1,130
  Biological control..............................................8,759
  Boll Weevil....................................................77,355
  Brucellosis.....................................................9,800
  Chronic wasting disease...........................................
  Emerg. plant pests.............................................43,130
  Golden nematode...................................................810
  Gypsy moth......................................................4,559
  Imported fire ant...............................................2,868
  Johne's disease.................................................3,000
  Noxious weeds...................................................1,255
  Pink bollworm...................................................1,866
  Pseudorabies....................................................4,151
  Scrapie.........................................................3,119
  Tuberculosis....................................................8,694
  Wildlife services operations...................................49,071
  Witchweed.......................................................1,520
                                                             __________
                                                             
    Total, Pest and Disease Management..........................221,087
                                                               ==========
_______________________________________________________________________

Animal Care:
  Animal welfare.................................................15,167
  Horse protection..................................................415
                                                             __________
                                                             
    Total, Animal Care...........................................15,582
                                                               ==========
_______________________________________________________________________

Scientific and Technical Services:
  Biotechnology and environmental protection.....................10,516
  Integrated systems acquisition project..........................1,748
  Plant methods...................................................5,118
  Veterinary biologics...........................................11,763
  Veterinary diagnostics.........................................18,278
  Wildlife services methods development..........................12,955
                                                             __________
                                                             
    Total, Scientific and Technical Services.....................60,378
                                                               ==========
_______________________________________________________________________

Contingency fund..................................................4,096
Pay parity...................................................__________
                                                             
    Total, Salaries and Expenses................................620,490

       Fruit fly exclusion and detection.--The conference 
     agreement includes funds to address the inequity in the 
     distribution of funds for fruit fly trapping in California 
     and Florida by increasing the California program by 
     $4,000,000 as proposed by the Senate instead of $2,000,000 as 
     proposed by the House.
       Animal health monitoring and surveillance.-- The conference 
     agreement provides an increase of $2,429,000 for the animal 
     health monitoring and surveillance (AHM&S) program instead of 
     $1,229,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement includes an additional $300,000 
     for the National Poultry Improvement Plan instead of $750,000 
     as proposed by the House and the fiscal year 2001 level of 
     funding as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement includes a $750,000 increase for a 
     cooperative agreement with the Wisconsin Livestock 
     Identification Consortium for a pilot project instead of 
     $1,000,000 as proposed by the House and $500,000 as proposed 
     by the Senate.
       The conference agreement includes $100,000 to develop a 
     bio-security demonstration and outreach program in 
     cooperation with the Vermont Department of Agriculture and 
     the University of Vermont College of Agriculture instead of 
     $200,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement includes an increase of $750,000 
     to implement a program for chronic wasting disease under the 
     AHM&S line item instead of $1,000,000 for a new line item as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       Animal and plant health regulatory and enforcement.--The 
     conference agreement includes an increase of $1,852,000 for 
     the animal and plant health regulatory and enforcement 
     program as proposed by the Senate instead of $1,000,000 as 
     proposed by the House.
       The conferees direct the agency to include animal welfare 
     violations and related enforcement responses in the agency's 
     annual report to Congress.
       Emergency Management System.--The conference agreement 
     provides an increase of $1,000,000 for the Emergency 
     Management System instead of $2,000,000 as proposed by the 
     House.
       Boll weevil.--The conference agreement provides $77,355,000 
     for boll weevil instead of $33,931,000 as proposed by the 
     House and $79,157,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       Brucellosis.--The conference agreement includes the fiscal 
     year 2001 level of funding for the Greater Yellowstone 
     Interagency Brucellosis Committee as proposed by the Senate 
     instead of $600,000 as proposed by the House.
       Emerging plant pests.--The conference agreement includes 
     $43,130,000 for the emerging plant pests program instead of 
     $48,515,000 as proposed by the House and $28,557,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate. Within this total, the conferees 
     expect that $3,618,000 be provided for the base program. In 
     addition to funds made available from the Commodity Credit 
     Corporation, the conferees direct that of this appropriation, 
     no less than $8,500,000 be provided for activities regarding 
     the glassy-winged sharpshooter; and no less than $31,030,000 
     be provided to combat emergency outbreaks of citrus canker in 
     Florida, the Asian long-horned beetle in New York and 
     Illinois (of which no less than $1,500,000 shall be for 
     activities in the area of Chicago, Illinois), plum pox virus, 
     and Mormon crickets and grasshoppers, of which $500,000 shall 
     be for Utah.
       The conferees direct the Secretary of Agriculture to 
     continue to use the authority provided in this bill to 
     transfer funds from the Commodity Credit Corporation for the 
     arrest and eradication of animal and plant pests and diseases 
     that threaten American agriculture.
       Golden nematode.--The conference agreement provides an 
     increase of $200,000 for golden nematode instead of $400,000 
     as proposed by the House.
       Imported fire ant.--The conference agreement includes 
     $2,868,000, of which $45,000 is for New Mexico, for imported 
     fire ants instead of $2,118,000 as proposed by the House and 
     $3,618,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       Noxious weeds.--The conference agreement includes an 
     increase of $125,000 in association with the Nez-Perce Bio-
     Control Center instead of $250,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       Pink bollworm.--The conference agreement provides an 
     increase of $250,000 over fiscal year 2001 for pink bollworm 
     activities instead of $455,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       Tuberculosis.--The conference agreement provides an 
     increase of $3,231,000 for tuberculosis eradication 
     activities instead of $6,463,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       Wildlife services operations.--The conference agreement 
     provides an increase of $300,000 for predator control 
     activities in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho instead of $500,000 
     proposed by the House and Senate.
       The conference agreement provides $300,000 above the fiscal 
     year 2001 funding level for the South Dakota Department of 
     Game and Fish instead of $500,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement provides $125,000 for a cost 
     sharing beaver control program in Louisiana instead of 
     $250,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement provides $8,250,000 for a rabies 
     control program instead of $16,500,000 as proposed by the 
     House and $4,600,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conferees 
     expect the agency to direct funds to Texas, West Virginia, 
     Ohio, New York, Vermont, Wyoming, and other states.
       The conference agreement continues support for blackbird 
     control activities in North Dakota, South Dakota, and 
     Louisiana and, in addition, provides an increase of $240,000 
     for completion of an environmental impact statement necessary 
     for a baiting program scheduled to begin in March of 2002.
       Animal welfare.--The conference agreement includes an 
     increase of $2,400,000 for animal welfare as proposed by the 
     House instead of $1,627,000 as proposed by the Senate, and 
     directs APHIS to hire an additional 14 inspectors and support 
     staff so that the overall number of inspections can increase, 
     and those facilities that are in non-compliance may be re-
     inspected more frequently. The conferees encourage the 
     Secretary to use any additional funds made available during 
     fiscal year 2001 for these activities to increase program 
     effectiveness as quickly as possible, and remind the 
     Secretary of Agriculture of the request for information on 
     this subject in Senate Report 107-33.
       Integrated systems acquisition project.--The conference 
     agreement provides an increase of $750,000 for the integrated 
     systems acquisition project instead of $1,000,000 as proposed 
     by the House.
       Veterinary biologics.--The conference agreement provides an 
     increase of $1,036,000 for the Center for Veterinary 
     Biologics instead of $1,186,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       Wildlife services methods development.--The conference 
     agreement provides an increase of $1,500,000 for wildlife 
     services methods development, of which $1,000,000 is to 
     address infrastructure deficiencies at NWRC, and $500,000 is 
     for non-lethal predator control methods of which $50,000 is 
     for work at the Monell Center in Pennsylvania.
       Avocados.--The conferees do not include House language 
     directing the agency to report to the Congress prior to 
     publishing any rules expanding the approved areas or 
     lengthening time periods for importation of Mexican avocados. 
     Those rules are in the process of being promulgated. The 
     conferees direct APHIS to report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations on the status of Mexican avocado imports, 
     including any problems in pest

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     surveys, and oversight by APHIS personnel, including the 
     diversion of Mexican avocados to other than approved 
     destinations.
       The conferees have been made aware of reports regarding 
     captive polar bears recently imported in the United States 
     and request APHIS to report back to the Committees on 
     Appropriations by January 1, 2002 on this matter.
       The conferees are concerned about the spread of West Nile 
     Virus in Illinois and expect APHIS to work with the State of 
     Illinois and the University of Illinois on cooperative ways 
     to conduct research, monitor, and respond to the outbreak, 
     including using contingency funds for these efforts.
       The conferees encourage APHIS, in order to strengthen 
     protections of U.S. meat and poultry supply, to expedite the 
     development of its automated database system to track 
     imported meat and animal product shipments and its Automated 
     Manifest System, designed to automatically target shipments 
     for hold.


                        BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES

       The conference agreement provides $7,189,000 for Animal and 
     Plant Health Inspection Service Buildings and Facilities as 
     proposed by the House instead of $5,189,000 as proposed by 
     the Senate.

                     Agricultural Marketing Service


                           MARKETING SERVICES

       The conference agreement provides $71,430,000 for the 
     Agricultural Marketing Service as proposed by the Senate 
     instead of $71,774,000 as proposed by the House. The total 
     amount includes $5,980,000 for the Livestock Mandatory Price 
     Reporting Program as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $5,900,000 as proposed by the House.
       The conferees expect the Microbiological Data Program to 
     produce national, consistent, and statistically reliable data 
     that may be used for research and risk analysis purposes by 
     federal agencies such as USDA, FDA, and CDC, state health 
     departments, researchers, and other stakeholders. The 
     Agricultural Marketing Service is encouraged to contract for 
     the data collection with organizations that have demonstrated 
     research and technical competence, and that are not barred by 
     statute from administering a blinded microbiological survey 
     program for fruits and vegetables. In order to ensure that 
     the data collected will be useful, and to avoid duplication 
     of effort, the conferees expect AMS to hold a public meeting, 
     within 60 days of enactment, to present a detailed data 
     collection proposal and seek input from all interested 
     parties.


          FUNDS FOR STRENGTHENING MARKETS, INCOME, AND SUPPLY

                              (SECTION 32)

       The conference agreement provides $13,995,000 for Funds for 
     Strengthening Markets, Income and Supply as proposed by the 
     House instead of $13,874,000 as proposed by the Senate.

        Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The conference agreement provides $33,117,000 for the Grain 
     Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration as proposed 
     by the House instead of $34,000,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate.

             Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety

       The conference agreement provides $476,000 for the Office 
     of the Under Secretary for Food Safety as proposed by the 
     Senate instead of $481,000 as proposed by the House.

                   Food Safety and Inspection Service

       The conference agreement provides $715,642,000 for the Food 
     Safety and Inspection Service instead of $720,652,000 as 
     proposed by the House and $715,747,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate.
       The conference agreement includes $608,730,000 for federal 
     food inspection.
       The conference agreement provides an increase of $100,000 
     over the fiscal year 2002 budget request for activities 
     related to the Codex Alimentarius.
       The conference agreement includes the following amounts, 
     which fully fund food inspection activities at the requested 
     level.

        Food safety and inspection service, funding by activity

                                 ($000)

                                                             Conference
        FSIS activity                                         agreement
Federal Food Inspection........................................$608,730
Import-Export Inspection.........................................12,127
Laboratory Services..............................................36,548
FAIM..............................................................8,005
Grants...........................................................42,517
Special Assistance to States......................................5,220
Codex.............................................................2,495
                                                             __________
                                                              715,642
                                                               ==========
_______________________________________________________________________

Food Safety Inspection:
  Federal.......................................................638,513
  State..........................................................47,418
  International..................................................15,344
  FAIM...........................................................11,872
  Codex...........................................................2,495
                                                             __________
                                                              715,642

    Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural 
                                Services

       The conference agreement provides $606,000 for the Office 
     of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural 
     Services as proposed by the Senate instead of $611,000 as 
     proposed by the House.

                          Farm Service Agency


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The conference agreement provides $939,030,000 for the Farm 
     Service Agency as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $945,993,000 as proposed by the House.


                         STATE MEDIATION GRANTS

       The conference agreement provides $3,493,000 for State 
     Mediation Grants instead of $2,993,000 as proposed by the 
     House and $3,993,000 as proposed by the Senate.


                        DAIRY INDEMNITY PROGRAM

       The conference agreement provides $100,000 for the Dairy 
     Indemnity Program as proposed by both the House and the 
     Senate, and includes bill language that provides by reference 
     the guidelines for making indemnity payments as proposed by 
     the House.


           AGRICULTURAL CREDIT INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The following table reflects the conference agreement:

Farm Ownership Loans:
  Direct.................................................($146,996,000)
  Subsidy.....................................................3,866,000
  Guaranteed............................................(1,000,000,000)
  Subsidy.....................................................4,500,000
Farm Operating Loans:
  Direct..................................................(611,198,000)
  Subsidy....................................................54,580,000
  Unsubsidized guaranteed...............................(1,500,000,000)
  Subsidy....................................................52,650,000
  Subsidized guaranteed...................................(505,531,000)
  Subsidy....................................................68,550,000
Indian Tribe Land Acquisition Loans.........................(2,000,000)
  Subsidy.......................................................118,400
Emergency Disaster Loans...................................(25,000,000)
  Subsidy.....................................................3,362,500
Boll Weevil Eradication Loans.............................(100,000,000)

       The conference agreement includes bill language that breaks 
     out the direct loan and subsidy amounts as proposed by the 
     House.
       The conference agreement provides $280,595,000 for 
     administrative expenses of which $272,595,000 shall be 
     transferred to the Farm Service Agency for this purpose as 
     proposed by the Senate instead of $282,769,000 for 
     administrative expenses of which $274,769,000 shall be 
     transferred as proposed by the House.
       The conference agreement includes bill language providing 
     that the Committees on Appropriations are to be notified at 
     least 15 days in advance of any transfer of funds as proposed 
     by the House instead of language requiring prior approval as 
     proposed by the Senate.

                         Risk Management Agency

       The conference agreement provides $74,752,000 for the Risk 
     Management Agency (RMA) instead of $75,142,000 as proposed by 
     the House and $73,752,000 as proposed by the Senate.

                              CORPORATIONS

                   Commodity Credit Corporation Fund


       OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT

                        (LIMITATION ON EXPENSES)

       The conference agreement includes the account heading 
     ``(Limitation on Expenses)'' as proposed by the Senate. The 
     House had no such heading.

                    TITLE II--CONSERVATION PROGRAMS

  Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment

       The conference agreement provides $730,000 for the Office 
     of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment 
     as proposed by the Senate instead of $736,000 as proposed by 
     the House.

               Natural Resources and Conservation Service


                        CONSERVATION OPERATIONS

       The conference agreement provides $779,000,000 for 
     Conservation Operations instead of $782,762,000 as proposed 
     by the House and instead of $807,454,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate, of which not less than $8,515,000 is for snow survey 
     and water forecasting as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $7,137,000 as proposed by the House; not less than $9,849,000 
     is for operation and establishment of plant materials centers 
     as proposed by the Senate instead of $9,349,000 as proposed 
     by the House; and, not less than $21,500,000 for the grazing 
     lands conservation initiative instead of $20,000,000 as 
     proposed by the House and $23,000,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate.
       The conference agreement does not provide $30,500,000 for 
     conservation reserve program (CRP) technical assistance as 
     proposed by the House; nor do the conferees include House 
     language directing the Secretary to spend up to $8,500,000 
     from CCC Section 11 for CRP technical assistance. The 
     conference agreement includes a provision that allows the 
     Secretary to transfer up to $13,000,000 from the 
     environmental quality incentives program for CRP technical 
     assistance instead of $26,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. 
     The conferees note that the CCC Section 11 cap was recently 
     revised upwards from $36,208,700 to $56,102,700. The 
     conferees strongly encourage the Secretary, in addition to 
     the funds available for transfer from the environmental 
     quality incentives program, to use CCC Section 11 funds to 
     ensure that CRP technical assistance is fully funded in 
     fiscal year 2002.
       In addition to the items in the House and Senate reports 
     that are not changed by the conference agreement, funding is 
     included for the following items: $300,000 for the Sand

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     Mountain Water Quality Project (AL); $150,000 for the Central 
     Alabama/Birmingham Water Quality Initiative; $200,000 for the 
     Gulf Coast Water Quality/conservation initiative (AL); Juneau 
     and Glennallen Offices (AK) $250,000; $500,000 to staff each 
     Soil and Water Conservation District (AK); $375,000 for the 
     Little Red River Irrigation Project (AR); $125,000 for the 
     Walnut Bayou Irrigation Project (AR); $150,000 for the Upper 
     Petit Jean Watershed Project (AR); $375,000 for agriculture 
     enhancement/open space (CA); Manatee Agriculture Reuse System 
     (FL) $500,000; Georgia Agricultural Water Conservation 
     Initiative $500,000; Little Wood River Irrigation District 
     Delivery System (ID) $500,000; conversion to sprinkler 
     irrigation (ID) $500,000; Hungry Canyon/Loess Hills Erosion 
     Control (IA) $800,000; $200,000 for CEMSA with Iowa Soybean 
     Association; Soil erosion control/soil survey (KY) 
     $1,700,000; Golden Meadows PMC (LA) $344,000; Barataria-
     Terrebone National Estuary Program (LA) $125,000; Lyon Canyon 
     Creek Drainage Improvement-Taylorsville (MS) $400,000; Cattle 
     and nutrient management (MS) $475,000; Chickasaway River-
     Quitman Planning and Design (MS) $75,000; Choctaw County 
     Feasibility Study for surface impoundment (MS) $75,000; Mill 
     Creek Watershed channel modification--Magee (MS) $900,000; 
     Jamie Whitten PMC (MS) $275,000; Wildlife Management 
     Institute (MS) $5,609,000, an increase of $900,000; Lake 
     Tahoe Basin Soil Conservation Project (CA/NV) $350,000; 
     Westchester County SWCD (NY) $325,000; $200,000 for the 
     refinement, integration, and implementation of computer tools 
     to improve nutrient management planning on dairy farms (NY); 
     $130,000 for a cooperative agreement with Pace University 
     (NY); Red River Flood Prevention/Environmental Research 
     Center (ND) $700,000; Oregon Garden, Silverton (OR) $325,000; 
     Advanced Wetland Plant Research-Hillsboro (OR) $125,000; 
     study to characterize land use change-Clemson University (SC) 
     $550,000; GIS based model (SC) $600,000; field office 
     telecommunications pilot program (TX) $3,000,000; and Great 
     Lakes Basin Program for Soil and Erosion Sediment $1,250,000.
       The conferees provide $100,000 for the Weed It Now 
     initiative in the southern Taconic Mountains of 
     Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut.
       The conferees provide $3,000,000, the same amount as fiscal 
     year 2001, for matching funds to the National Fish and 
     Wildlife Foundation. This Federal financial assistance shall 
     be advanced without regard to when expenses are incurred for 
     projects on or benefiting the mission of the Natural 
     Resources Conservation Service.
       The conferees continue funding for the Texas plant 
     materials centers at not less than the fiscal year 2001 
     funding levels.
       The conference agreement provides $250,000 as proposed by 
     the Senate instead of $150,000 as proposed by the House, for 
     a cooperative agreement with the Wisconsin State Department 
     of Agriculture to expand the Wisconsin grazing lands 
     initiative to augment the funding that this initiative is 
     receiving through the environmental quality incentives 
     program.
       The conference agreement provides $5,000,000, the same as 
     fiscal year 2001, for the continued implementation and 
     acceleration of pilot projects for innovative technology 
     systems resulting in a 75 percent reduction in nutrients of 
     wastewater discharged by animal feeding operations to be 
     managed by Farm Pilot Project Coordination, Inc. The 
     Secretary is directed to release these funds after submitting 
     a report to the Committees on Appropriations that a 
     satisfactory cooperative agreement between the NRCS and Farm 
     Pilot Project Coordination, Inc. has been consummated.
       The conference agreement does not include $1,250,000 for 
     the Seward/Resurrection River North Forest Acres (AK) as 
     proposed by the Senate, or $1,500,000 for field 
     telecommunications pilot program (NM) as proposed by the 
     House.


                     WATERSHED SURVEYS AND PLANNING

       The conference agreement provides $10,960,000 for Watershed 
     Surveys and Planning as proposed by the Senate instead 
     $11,030,000 as proposed by the House.


               WATERSHED AND FLOOD PREVENTION OPERATIONS

       The conference agreement provides $106,590,000 for 
     Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations instead of 
     $111,143,000 as proposed by the House and $100,413,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes 
     $15,000,000 for watersheds authorized under the Flood Control 
     Act of 1936 as proposed by the Senate instead of $10,000,000 
     as proposed by the House.
       The conferees provide funds for continuing work in 
     connection with the Hickory Creek, Marthasville, West Fork of 
     Big Creek, East Fork of Grand River, McKenzie Creek, Upper 
     Locust Creek, Troublesome Creek, and East Yellow Creek, 
     Missouri.
       The conferees provide funds for the following projects in 
     Mississippi: to finish the installation of the remaining 
     channel work on Coonewah Creek, Lee County; for flood control 
     in the Pearl River Basin, Dry Creek watershed, Marion County; 
     for installation of grade stabilization structures in the 
     Skuna River; to provide bank stabilization structures in the 
     Strayhorn Creek Watershed; and for the study, planning and 
     design of flood water retarding structures in the Pellaphalia 
     Creek Watershed, Carthage.

                    WATERSHED REHABILITATION PROGRAM

       The conference agreement includes a new account for the 
     Watershed Rehabilitation Program and provides $10,000,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate. The House had a similar provision 
     under Watershed Flood Prevention Operations. The conferees 
     expect that priorities under this program be given only to 
     those structures which pose the highest risk to life and 
     property.

                 RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT

       The conference agreement provides $48,048,000 for Resource 
     Conservation and Development as proposed by the Senate 
     instead of $48,361,000 as proposed by the House.
       The conference agreement includes funds to maintain funding 
     for the eight councils that were funded out of the Fund for 
     Rural America in fiscal year 2001. The conferees provide 
     $1,125,000 for pay cost as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $1,438,000 as proposed by the House. The conference agreement 
     includes $1,000,000 to bring the per council allocation 
     closer to the $161,000 level recommended by USDA, and 
     $3,000,000 to fund the maximum number of pending applications 
     for new councils that the $3,000,000 will allow.

                      FORESTRY INCENTIVES PROGRAM

       The conference agreement provides $6,811,000 for the 
     Forestry Incentives Program instead of $7,811,000 as proposed 
     by the Senate.
       The conferees note authorization under the Forestry 
     Incentives Program for removal and site preparation for 
     replanting on private lands which may serve to reduce the 
     potential of wildfires and directs the agency, where 
     appropriate, to provide resources for that purpose, utilizing 
     flexibility regarding minimum productivity requirements.

                 TITLE III--RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

          Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development

       The conference agreement provides $623,000 for the Office 
     of the Under Secretary for Rural Development as proposed by 
     the Senate instead of $628,000 as proposed by the House.
       The conferees expect the Department to give consideration 
     to the following requests for assistance from rural 
     development programs: community facilities grant for the 
     transfer of the Audubon Sugar Institute at the Louisiana 
     State University Agricultural Center; funding for the 
     International Agri-Center, Inc. in Tulare, California; 
     assistance from the distance learning and telemedicine 
     program to the Commonwealth of Kentucky for the Kentucky 
     Telehealth Network, to expand telemedicine services in rural 
     Kentucky; funding for a feasibility study of the Public 
     Market project in Springfield, MA; assistance from community 
     facilities loan and grant programs to build a Regional Health 
     Center by the Community Medical Centers of Fresno, CA; 
     assistance from the rural business opportunity grant program 
     for the Appalachian Information Technology Partnership (WV); 
     assistance for the Women in Technology Project, Hawaii and 
     Wisconsin; assistance to deal with the deteriorating 
     situation that exists within the Pascoag Utility District, 
     RI, due to contamination of the District's groundwater; 
     assistance to the City of Nanticoke, PA for a Downtown 
     Redevelopment Initiative; assistance for the development of 
     sewer service in Kinsman Township, OH; assistance for a 
     wastewater treatment upgrade in Columbiana, OH; a guaranteed 
     business and industry loan for Fayette, AL; Montana Rural 
     Business Accelerator, MT; and assistance for extension of 
     water lines in Lake Milton and Craig Beach, OH.
       The conferees note the important work provided through the 
     National Rural Development Partnership, and its associated 
     State Rural Development Councils, and encourage the 
     Department to continue support for these efforts from within 
     available funds.

                  RURAL COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT PROGRAM

       The conference agreement provides $806,557,000 for the 
     Rural Community Advancement Program (RCAP) instead of 
     $767,465,000 as proposed by the House and $1,004,125,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement does not include Senate language 
     that specifies program levels within the total made available 
     under the RCAP for assistance to Federally Recognized Native 
     American Tribes. The conferees are aware of housing, utility, 
     business opportunity, and educational infrastructure needs 
     and direct the Department to allocate program benefits in a 
     manner that best serves the requirements of this population, 
     but expect that up to $4,000,000 shall be available for 
     community facilities grants to tribal colleges.
       The conference agreement adopts Senate language providing 
     $24,000,000 for rural and native villages in Alaska.
       The conference agreement adopts Senate language providing 
     for up to one percent of funds provided for water and waste 
     disposal systems in Alaska for program administration and up 
     to one percent to improve interagency coordination instead of 
     one percent as proposed by the House.
       The conference agreement provides $17,465,000 for technical 
     assistance grants for rural water and waste systems.
       The conferees provide bill language that of the funds 
     provided for technical assistance for rural water and waste 
     systems, $5,250,000

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     be designated for Rural Community Assistance Programs.
       The conference agreement adopts language setting aside 
     $11,000,000 for the circuit rider program and expects that 
     this will provide sufficient funds for a third circuit rider 
     in approximately 15 states, including Mississippi.
       The conference agreement adopts Senate language setting 
     aside $25,000,000 for facilities in rural communities with 
     extreme unemployment and severe economic depression.
       The conference agreement adopts Senate language setting 
     aside $30,000,000 for grants in rural communities with 
     extremely high-energy costs.
       The conference agreement adopts Senate language allowing 
     funds provided for guaranteed business and industry loans to 
     be transferred for direct business and industry loans as 
     deemed necessary by the Secretary.
       The conferees are aware that raw sewage is spilling into 
     the Talkeetna River, Alaska, and threatens to contaminate the 
     City of Talkeetna's drinking water supply because the sewer 
     system has failed. Within the funds provided for water and 
     waste disposal systems for rural and native villages in 
     Alaska, the managers expect adequate funds to be made 
     available to make emergency and permanent repairs to bring 
     the system into compliance with applicable federal and state 
     clean water requirements.
       The following table indicates the distribution of funding 
     for the RCAP:

Community Facilities........................................$83,545,000
Business-Cooperative Development.............................76,500,000
Water and Waste.............................................646,512,000
                                                       ________________
                                                       
    Total ..................................................806,557,000
                                                       ================

Federally Recognized Native American Tribes..................24,000,000
Rural Community Development Initiative........................6,000,000
Technical Assistance for Rural Transportation...................500,000
Mississippi Delta.............................................2,000,000
Colonias.....................................................20,000,000
Alaska Villages..............................................24,000,000
Technical Assistance.........................................17,465,000
Circuit Rider................................................11,000,000
EZ/EC and REAP...............................................37,624,000
Economic impact initiative grants............................25,000,000
High energy costs grants.....................................30,000,000


                RURAL DEVELOPMENT SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The conference agreement provides $133,722,000 for Rural 
     Development Salaries and Expenses as proposed by the Senate 
     instead of $134,733,000 as proposed by the House.
       The conferees have provided $200,000, within available 
     funds, for the Alaska State office to maintain existing field 
     offices, to establish an Assistant State Director position 
     and new field offices to be collocated to the maximum extent 
     possible with the Natural Resources Conservation Service. A 
     staffing plan for the Alaska State office should be submitted 
     by the Rural Development Agency to the Committees on 
     Appropriations no later than December 15, 2001.

                         Rural Housing Service


              RURAL HOUSING INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The conference agreement provides a total subsidy of 
     $245,887,000 for activities under the Rural Housing Insurance 
     Fund Program Account instead of $243,887,000 as proposed by 
     the House and $247,887,000 as proposed by the Senate. The 
     conference agreement provides for an estimated loan program 
     level of $4,485,846,000 instead of $4,470,648,000 as proposed 
     by the House and $4,501,044,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement adopts Senate language providing 
     for a transfer of $422,241,000 to salaries and expenses 
     instead of $422,910,000 as proposed by the House.
       The conference agreement adopts House language that allows 
     up to $5,986,197 to be transferred from the section 515 
     rental housing program to the rental assistance program for 
     emergency designations.
       The conferees are aware of the storm damage that occurred 
     in Oklahoma on October 9, 2001, and urge the Secretary to 
     give high priority to section 502 loan and grant applications 
     for housing reparations.
       The following table indicates loan and subsidy levels 
     provided in the conference agreement:

Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program Account:..........................
                                                   Loan authorizations:
    Single family (sec. 502)...........................($1,079,848,000)
      Unsubsidized guaranteed...........................(3,137,968,000)
    Rental housing (sec. 515).............................(114,068,000)
    Multi-family housing guarantees (sec. 538).............(99,770,000)
    Housing repair (sec. 504)..............................(32,324,000)
    Credit sales of acquired property......................(11,778,000)
    Site loans (sec. 524)...................................(5,090,000)
    Self-help housing land development fund.................(5,000,000)
                                                       ________________
                                                       
      Total, Loan authorizations........................(4,485,846,000)
                                                       ================

                                                        Loan subsidies:
    Single family (sec. 502)................................142,108,000
      Unsubsidized guaranteed................................40,166,000
    Rental housing (sec. 515)................................48,274,000
    Multi-family housing guarantees (sec. 538)................3,921,000
    Housing repair (sec. 504)................................10,386,000
    Credit sales of acquired property...........................750,000
    Site loans (sec. 524)........................................28,000
    Self-help housing land development fund.....................254,000
                                                       ________________
                                                       
      Total, Loan subsidies.................................245,887,000
                                                       ================

RHIF administration expenses (transfer to RD)...............422,241,000


                       RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

       The conference agreement provides $701,004,000 for the 
     Rental Assistance Program instead of $693,504,000 as proposed 
     by the House and $708,504,000 as proposed by the Senate.


                  MUTUAL AND SELF-HELP HOUSING GRANTS

       The conference agreement provides $35,000,000 for Mutual 
     and Self-Help Housing Grants as proposed by the Senate and 
     $33,925,000 as proposed by the House.


                       FARM LABOR PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The conference agreement provides $31,431,000 for the Farm 
     Labor Program Account as proposed by the House instead of 
     $28,431,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement provides $13,464,000 for loan 
     subsidies and $17,967,000 for grants, of which $15,000,000 is 
     for farm labor housing grants and $2,967,000 is for grants 
     for migrant and seasonal farmworkers.

                  Rural Business--Cooperative Service


              RURAL DEVELOPMENT LOAN FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The conference agreement adopts Senate language providing 
     for a transfer of $3,733,000 to salaries and expenses instead 
     of $3,761,000 as proposed by the House.


                  RURAL COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

       The conference agreement provides $7,750,000 for Rural 
     Cooperative Development Grants instead of $7,500,000 as 
     proposed by the House and $8,000,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate.
       The conference agreement adopts House language providing 
     $2,500,000 for the appropriate technology transfer for rural 
     areas program instead of $2,000,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate.
       The conference agreement adopts Senate language providing 
     not to exceed $1,497,000 for cooperatives or associations of 
     cooperatives, whose primary focus is to provide assistance to 
     small, minority producers and whose governing board and/or 
     membership is comprised of at least 75 percent minority.


       RURAL EMPOWERMENT ZONES AND ENTERPRISE COMMUNITIES GRANTS

       The conference agreement adopts Senate language that makes 
     funds available for grants authorized by the Omnibus 
     Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 
     1999 (Public Law 105-277).

                        Rural Utilities Service


   RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The conference agreement provides a total subsidy of 
     $2,036,000 for activities under the Rural Electrification and 
     Telecommunications Loans Program Account. The conference 
     agreement provides for an estimated loan program level of 
     $4,565,934,000 as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $4,610,292,000 as proposed by the House.
       The conference agreement adopts Senate language providing 
     for a transfer of $36,000,000 to salaries and expenses 
     instead of $36,322,000 as proposed by the House. Included in 
     this amount is an increase of $400,000 for additional 
     administrative expenses due to the recommended loan levels in 
     the electric treasury rate and FFB accounts.
       The following table indicates loan and subsidy levels 
     provided in the conference agreement:

Rural Electrification and Telecommunications Loans Program Account:
                                                   Loan authorizations:
    Electric:
      Direct, 5 percent..................................($121,107,000)
      Direct, Muni........................................(500,000,000)
      Direct, FFB.......................................(2,600,000,000)
      Direct, Treasury rate...............................(750,000,000)
      Guaranteed..........................................(100,000,000)
                                                       ________________
                                                       
        Subtotal........................................(4,071,107,000)
                                                       ================

    Telecommunications:
      Direct, 5 percent....................................(74,827,000)
      Direct, Treasury rate...............................(300,000,000)
      Direct, FFB.........................................(120,000,000)
                                                       ________________
                                                       
        Subtotal..........................................(494,827,000)
                                                       ________________
                                                       
        Total, loan authorizations......................(4,565,934,000)
                                                       ================

                                                        Loan subsidies:
    Electric:
      Direct, 5 percent.......................................3,609,000
      Direct, Muni................................................. (1)
      Direct, FFB.................................................. (1)
      Direct, Treasury rate........................................ (1)
      Guaranteed.................................................80,000
                                                       ________________
                                                       
        Subtotal..............................................3,689,000
                                                       ================

    Telecommunications:
      Direct, 5 percent.......................................1,736,000

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      Direct, Treasury rate.....................................300,000
      Direct, FFB.................................................. (1)
                                                       ________________
                                                       
        Subtotal..............................................2,036,000
                                                       ================

        Total, loan subsidies.................................5,725,000
RETLP administrative expenses (transfer to RD)...............36,000,000
Total, Rural Electrification and Telecommunications Loans Program 
  Account....................................................41,725,000

\1\ Negative subsidy rates for fiscal year 2002 are calculated for 
these programs.


                  RURAL TELEPHONE BANK PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The conference agreement provides $3,737,000 for the Rural 
     Telephone Bank Program Account as proposed by the Senate 
     instead of $2,584,000 as proposed by the House.
       The conference agreement adopts Senate language providing 
     for a transfer of $3,082,000 to salaries and expenses instead 
     of $3,107,000 as proposed by the House.


               DISTANCE LEARNING AND TELEMEDICINE PROGRAM

       The conference agreement provides $49,441,000 for the 
     Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program instead of 
     $26,941,000 as proposed by the House and $51,941,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement includes language setting aside 
     $22,500,000 to finance broadband transmission and local dial-
     up service in rural areas, of which at least $12,500,000 is 
     to be made available for grants to carry out this program.
       The conference agreement provides for an estimated loan 
     program level of $300,000,000 for distance learning and 
     telemedicine loans and $80,000,000 for broadband 
     telecommunication loans.


            LOCAL TELEVISION LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The conference agreement provides $20,000,000 for the Local 
     Television Loan Guarantee Program instead of $25,000,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate. The House bill provided no funds for 
     this account. The conference agreement provides for an 
     estimated loan program level of $258,065,000 instead of 
     $322,580,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement adopts Senate language providing 
     for a transfer of $2,000,000 to salaries and expenses.

                    TITLE IV--DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS

Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services

       The conference agreement provides $587,000 for the Office 
     of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer 
     Services as proposed by the Senate instead of $592,000 as 
     proposed by the House.
       The conferees direct the Department to provide $100,000 to 
     the State of New York for a pilot program to provide wireless 
     equipment and services capable of supporting Food Stamp 
     Electronic Benefit Transfer transactions in farmers' markets 
     authorized by the Department and operating in the State of 
     New York. The conference agreement does not include language 
     relating to the use of WIC Electronic Benefit Transfer funds 
     for state initiatives to implement pilot programs relating to 
     wireless purchases at farmers' markets.
       The conferees are concerned about the effect of rising food 
     and labor costs on school meal programs, and request a report 
     to the Committees on Appropriations on USDA plans to address 
     this subject by June 30, 2002, instead of by January 31, 2002 
     as proposed by the House. The response should address all 
     requirements as proposed by the House under this account and 
     by the Senate as proposed in the Child Nutrition Program 
     account.
       The conference agreement includes $10,000,000 under the 
     Commodity Assistance Program to carry out the Senior Farmers 
     Market Program in fiscal year 2002. While this action 
     indicates strong support on the part of the conferees for 
     this program, it does not replace expectations that the 
     Secretary will consider these funds supplemental to resources 
     of the Commodity Credit Corporation, as provided by the 
     Department in fiscal year 2001. In addition, the conferees 
     fully expect the Secretary to work with the appropriate 
     authorization committees to establish this program under law.
       The conferees recognize that childhood obesity and adult 
     diseases in children, such as type II diabetes of which poor 
     nutrition is the major contributing factor, have become a 
     serious problem. In response, the conferees believe that 
     nutrition education is crucial to the health and well-being 
     of our nation's children, and the Department should have a 
     significant nutrition education program in our schools, 
     including through in-school educational networks and school 
     menus. Therefore, the conferees urge the Secretary to put an 
     increased emphasis on nutrition education and training.
       The conferees are concerned about the nutritional status 
     and obesity levels of our nation's children and are aware of 
     recent studies that indicate a nutritionally adequate diet, 
     which includes increased amounts of quality, fresh produce, 
     is integral to better health and educational preparedness. In 
     order to improve efficiencies and increase levels of fresh 
     produce available to children, the conferees expect the 
     Department to analyze the current levels of fresh produce in 
     its nutrition programs, including the school lunch program, 
     review its method of transportation and efficiency of 
     distribution utilizing Defense facilities, and undertake 
     outreach efforts to increase produce purchases under sections 
     4 and 11 of the National School Lunch Act and report back to 
     the Committees on Appropriations no later than 120 days after 
     enactment of this Act.

                       Food and Nutrition Service


                        CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS

       The conference agreement provides $10,087,246,000 for Child 
     Nutrition Programs as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $10,088,746,000 as proposed by the House.
       Included in this amount is an appropriated amount of 
     $4,914,788,000 and a transfer from section 32 of 
     $5,172,458,000. The transfer amount from section 32 was 
     changed due to updated information available from the 
     Department. Included in the appropriated amount is $500,000 
     for a school breakfast pilot project in Wisconsin, as 
     proposed by the Senate. The House had no similar provision.
       The conference agreement does not include $2,000,000 for a 
     National School Lunch Program integrity study as proposed by 
     the House. This study is funded under the Food Program 
     Administration account, as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement provides the following for Child 
     Nutrition programs:


                      Total obligational authority

Child Nutrition Programs:
  School lunch program...................................$5,759,232,000
  School breakfast program................................1,579,752,000
  Child and adult care food program.......................1,878,179,000
  Summer food service program...............................325,341,000
  Special milk program.......................................15,940,000
  State administrative expenses.............................129,929,000
  Commodity procurement and support.........................381,877,000
  School meals initiative/Team nutrition......................9,991,000
  Coordinated review effort...................................4,507,000
  Food safety education.......................................1,998,000
  School breakfast pilot project................................500,000
                                                       ________________
                                                       
    Total................................................10,087,246,000

       The conference agreement does not include language relating 
     to study of the effect of rising food and labor costs on 
     school-based child nutrition programs as proposed by the 
     Senate under this account. The conferees request such 
     information under the account of the Office of the Under 
     Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services.
       The conferees recommend that the Secretary continue the 
     pilot program with the Alisal Union School District in 
     Salinas, California to combine the administration of the 
     summer food service program and the school lunch program.
       The conferees are encouraged that the Food and Nutrition 
     Service has made progress on assisting schools with enforcing 
     the Buy American provisions of the Richard B. Russell 
     National School Lunch Act. The conferees are concerned, 
     however, that guidance material being drafted by the agency 
     conflicts with guidance provided on other procurement issues. 
     Accordingly, FNS is directed to ensure that all guidance 
     documents and other material on this topic follow the 
     agency's current procurement principles and not distinguish 
     between the sources of funds used to conduct a procurement.


special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children 
                                 (wic)

       The conference agreement provides $4,348,000,000 for the 
     Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, 
     and Children (WIC) instead of $4,137,086,000 as proposed by 
     the House and $4,247,086,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement provides that the Secretary shall 
     obligate $10,000,000 for the farmers' market nutrition 
     program within 45 days of enactment of this Act, and that the 
     Secretary may obligate up to an additional $15,000,000 for 
     this program from funds not needed to meet caseload 
     requirements.
       The conference agreement provides that $10,000,000 shall be 
     available for infrastructure, and that up to an additional 
     $4,000,000 shall be available for this purpose from funds not 
     needed to meet caseload requirements. The House had proposed 
     $10,000,000 for infrastructure and the Senate had proposed 
     $14,000,000. The conferees encourage the Department to 
     continue funding for WIC Electronic Benefit Transfer at the 
     current level of $6,000,000 from within infrastructure 
     funding.
       The conference agreement does not include a provision 
     relating to senior farmers market nutrition activities, as 
     proposed by the House. The Senate had no similar provision.
       The conference agreement does not include a provision that 
     allows fiscal year 2001 WIC carryover funds in excess of 
     $110,000,000 to be transferred to the Rural Community 
     Advancement Program as proposed by the Senate.
       The conferees agree to the WIC infant formula study as 
     proposed by the Senate. The conferees direct that this study 
     be conducted by the GAO instead of the Secretary of 
     Agriculture.
       In view of the potential increase in WIC participation 
     levels, the conferees direct the Department to notify the 
     Committees on Appropriations on funds obligated to support 
     the WIC farmers' market and infrastructure programs and to 
     provide a justification for those levels of funding.


                           food stamp program

       The conference agreement provides $22,991,986,000 for the 
     food stamp program as

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     proposed by the Senate instead of $21,991,986,000 as proposed 
     by the House. Included in this amount is a reserve of 
     $2,000,000,000 as proposed by the Senate instead of a reserve 
     of $1,000,000,000 as proposed by the House.
       The conference agreement includes a Senate provision 
     limiting obligations of reserved funds for Employment and 
     Training programs made available in previous fiscal years to 
     $145,000,000.
       The conference agreement includes a Senate provision 
     allowing for purchase of bison meat, in an amount not to 
     exceed $3,000,000, for the Food Distribution Program on 
     Indian Reservations (FDPIR).


                      commodity assistance program

       The conference agreement provides $152,813,000 for the 
     Commodity Assistance Program, as proposed by the House, 
     instead of $139,991,000 as proposed by the Senate. Included 
     in that amount is $50,000,000 for administration of TEFAP, 
     and $102,813,000 for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program.
       The conference agreement provides that $20,820,000 of this 
     appropriation shall be available for administrative expenses 
     of the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, instead of 
     $21,820,000 as proposed by the House. The Senate had no 
     similar provision.
       The conference agreement provides $10,000,000 for funding 
     of senior farmers' market activities. The House proposed 
     funding for that purpose of up to $15,000,000 from funds not 
     needed to maintain caseload. The Senate included language 
     that encouraged funding for this purpose through the 
     Commodity Credit Corporation.
       The conference agreement rescinds $3,300,000 of unobligated 
     balances available at the beginning of fiscal year 2002, 
     instead of $5,300,000 as proposed by the Senate. The House 
     had no similar provision.
       The conference agreement provides $5,000,000 in additional 
     funding to support the participation of five new states in 
     the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP). These states, 
     Missouri, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, and 
     Pennsylvania, have CSFP-approved plans and await funding. The 
     conferees expect that funding to support the state of 
     Washington, which joined the program in late fiscal year 
     2001, be continued.


                         food donations program

       The conference agreement provides $150,749,000 for the Food 
     Donations Program as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $160,749,000 as proposed by the House. Included in this 
     amount is $149,668,000 for the Elderly Feeding Program, as 
     proposed by the House, instead of $149,670,000 as proposed by 
     the Senate. For the needy family program, the conference 
     agreement provides $1,081,000, instead of $1,079,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.


                      food program administration

       The conference agreement provides $127,546,000 for Food 
     Program Administration as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $126,656,000 as proposed by the House. Included in this 
     amount is not less than $6,500,000 to improve integrity in 
     the Food Stamp Program and Child Nutrition Program as 
     proposed by the Senate instead of not less than $4,500,000 as 
     proposed by the House. The House had proposed funding of 
     $2,000,000 for integrity studies under the Child Nutrition 
     Program account; the conference agreement provides that 
     funding under the FPA account.
       The conference agreement includes $3,000,000 for research, 
     evaluation, and assessment activities and $1,800,000 to 
     improve FNS information technology. As deemed necessary for 
     the proper administration of the nutrition assistance 
     programs by the Agency, additional recurring studies, 
     evaluations, and program information collections may be 
     undertaken with the amount appropriated herein.
       The conferees direct that food program studies and 
     evaluations work must be done in accordance with the statutes 
     governing Federal nutrition assistance programs. These 
     statutes, Section 17 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977, Section 6 
     of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, and 
     Section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, authorize the 
     use of funds to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of 
     Federal nutrition assistance programs.
       The conferees request a report on all integrity studies 
     underway or anticipated for start in fiscal year 2002. This 
     report should include a description of the study purpose, 
     duration, cost, and note whether the study is being conducted 
     by FNS staff or by a contractor. The conferees request that 
     this report be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations 
     by February 1, 2002.

            TITLE V--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS

                      Foreign Agricultural Service


                         salaries and expenses

       The conference agreement provides $121,813,000 for the 
     Foreign Agricultural Service instead of $122,631,000 as 
     proposed by the House and instead of $121,563,000 as proposed 
     by the Senate.
       The conference agreement contains a provision prohibiting 
     the disbursal of funds to any rice trade association when the 
     applicable international agreement for such activity is not 
     in effect as proposed by the House.
       The conferees are concerned with the current international 
     terrorism crisis and its effect on commodity assistance 
     programs in Southwest Asia and North Africa. Accordingly, the 
     conferees encourage the Foreign Agricultural Service to 
     prioritize its activities with the goal of assisting those 
     countries, including Egypt and Jordan, and other nations that 
     are actively engaged and assisting the U.S. Government in its 
     efforts to combat terrorism.
       The conferees are concerned with the recent discovery of 
     BSE in Japan as Japan accounts for almost $2 billion, 
     approximately 50%, of U.S. beef exports. Even though U.S. 
     beef remains BSE-free, there is rising concern that the 
     discovery of BSE in Japan is resulting in reduced consumption 
     of beef, and subsequently impacting sales of U.S. beef to 
     Japan. The conferees strongly encourage the Secretary to use 
     the Foreign Market Development program to assist the U.S. 
     beef industry in promoting U.S. beef to Japanese consumers.

     Public Law 480 Title I and Title II Program and Grant Accounts

       The conference agreement provides $126,409,000 for the 
     Title I Program Account instead of $122,600,000 as proposed 
     by the House and $130,218,000 as proposed by the Senate. This 
     funding will provide a loan authorization level of 
     $154,664,000 instead of $150,000,000 as proposed by the House 
     and $159,327,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement provides $850,000,000 for Public 
     Law 480 title II as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $835,159,000 as proposed by the House.
       The conference agreement provides $972,000 for a transfer 
     to FSA salaries and expenses as proposed by the Senate 
     instead of $980,000 as proposed by the House.
       The following table reflects the conference agreement for 
     Public Law 480 program accounts:


                             Public Law 480

Title 1--Program account:
  Loan authorization, direct.............................($154,664,000)
  Loan subsidies............................................126,409,000
  Ocean freight differential.................................20,277,000
Title II--Commodities for disposition abroad:
  Program level...........................................(850,000,000)
  Appropriation.............................................850,000,000
Salaries and expenses:
  Foreign Agricultural Service (transfer to FAS)..............1,033,000
  Farm Service Agency (transfer to FSA).........................972,000
                                                       ________________
                                                       
    Subtotal..................................................2,005,000
                                                       ================

Total, Public Law 480:
  Program level.........................................(1,004,664,000)
  Appropriation.............................................998,691,000

        Public Law 480 Title I Ocean Freight Differential Grants

       The conference agreement includes new bill language that 
     provides for the use of funds to be used for the shipment of 
     commodities under the Agricultural Trade Development and 
     Assistance Act of 1954 and under the Food for Progress Act of 
     1985, and that funds may be used interchangeably between the 
     Title I program account and ocean freight differential 
     account with prior notice to the Committees on 
     Appropriations.

      TITLE VI--RELATED AGENCIES AND FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                      Food and Drug Administration


                         salaries and expenses

       The conference agreement provides total appropriations, 
     including Prescription Drug User Fee Act collections, of 
     $1,345,386,000 for the salaries and expenses of the Food and 
     Drug Administration, as proposed by the Senate, instead of 
     $1,345,289,000 as proposed by the House, and provides 
     specific amounts by FDA activity as reflected in the 
     following table.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Budget        Prescription
                           Program                                authority      drug user fees       Total
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Foods........................................................      312,049,000                0      312,049,000
Human Drugs..................................................      246,459,000      106,188,000      352,647,000
Biologics....................................................      120,531,000       35,344,000      155,875,000
Animal Drugs and Feeds.......................................       82,967,000                0       82,967,000
Medical Devices..............................................      179,521,000                0      179,521,000
NCTR.........................................................       37,082,000                0       37,082,000
Rent and Rent-related activities.............................       29,798,000                0       29,798,000
Other Activities.............................................       76,387,000       13,944,000       90,331,000
Rental Payments to GSA.......................................       98,876,000        6,240,000      105,116,000
Net Appropriation............................................    1,183,670,000      161,716,000    1,345,386,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

       The conference agreement provides the full budget authority 
     increases from the fiscal year 2001 levels requested in the 
     President's fiscal year 2002 budget for the following 
     activities: $15,000,000 for BSE prevention and enforcement; 
     $10,000,000 for adverse event monitoring and reporting; 
     $10,000,000 for human subject protection; $9,400,000 for 
     food safety activities; and $10,297,000 for inspections 
     and import monitoring.
       The conference agreement provides an increase of 
     $45,200,000 over the fiscal year 2001 level to fund pay cost 
     increases as proposed by the House instead of $40,000,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       For other increases requested in the President's fiscal 
     year 2002 budget, the conferees provide: $4,000,000 for the 
     move of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research to White 
     Oak, Maryland; and $3,100,000 for financial management system 
     priorities. The conferees direct that the priority use of the 
     financial management system funds will be to

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     support streamlining and centralizing FDA's existing 
     financial management systems, rather than beginning 
     investment in a new financial system.
       The conference agreement provides increases for the generic 
     drugs program and generic drug education, as proposed by both 
     the House and the Senate. The conferees direct an increase of 
     $2,500,000 above the fiscal year 2001 level for the generic 
     drug program. This amount includes a $250,000 increase for 
     generic drug education activities, for a total of $400,000 in 
     fiscal year 2002 funding for that purpose.
       The conference agreement provides an increase of $3,000,000 
     for activities related to antibiotic drugs. The conference 
     agreement does not include a proviso that $5,000,000 may be 
     for activities carried out with respect to antibiotic drugs, 
     as proposed by the House. The Senate had no similar 
     provision.
       The conference agreement does not include a proviso that 
     $250,000 may be for activities carried out with regard to 
     food labeling, as proposed by the House. The Senate had no 
     similar provision.
       In addition, the conference agreement provides increases 
     from the fiscal year 2001 levels of $1,500,000 for dietary 
     supplement adverse event monitoring, instead of $2,000,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate; $1,000,000 to continue work carried 
     out by the FDA in collaboration with the National Center for 
     Natural Products Research to identify and analyze botanical 
     ingredients in dietary supplements, as proposed by the 
     Senate; $500,000 for a gene tracking system, as proposed by 
     the Senate; $500,000 for dietary supplement activities 
     relating to enforcement purposes, instead of $1,000,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate; and $1,000,000 for the orphan product 
     grant program, instead of $2,000,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate. The $1,000,000 increase for the orphan product grant 
     program includes $850,000 for orphan product grants and 
     $150,000 for administrative expenses. The House had no 
     similar proposals.
       The conferees continue the fiscal year 2001 level of 
     funding for FDA to continue its contract with New Mexico 
     State University's Physical Science Laboratory to conduct 
     method evaluation of rapid testing methods of fresh fruits 
     and vegetables for microbial contamination.
       The conference agreement provides an increase of $500,000 
     for the Office of Women's Health, instead of $700,000 as 
     proposed by the House. The Senate language did not provide an 
     increase. The conferees are concerned that the FDA has paid 
     insufficient attention to gender-based research. The 
     conferees direct that the agency develop an agency-wide 
     database focused on women's health activities to include 
     demographic data on clinical trials. The conferees require a 
     report to the Committees by June 3, 2002, which should 
     include an update on the current pilot program and a 
     capability assessment of the agency's ability to review 
     clinical trial databases, coordinate data collection, and 
     identify areas in which gaps exist.
       The conference agreement does not include a provision that 
     an additional $2,950,000 is available for drug reimportation 
     activities, after certain requirements are met, as proposed 
     by the House. The Senate had no similar provision.
       The conference agreement includes language relating to the 
     credit of user fees, as proposed by the Senate. The House 
     included similar language.
       The conference agreement provides that fees derived from 
     applications received during fiscal year 2002 shall be 
     subject to the fiscal year 2002 limitation as proposed by the 
     Senate. The House had no similar provision.
       The conference agreement directs that no funds be used to 
     develop or establish user fee programs, as proposed by the 
     Senate. The House had no similar provision.
       The conferees include program specifications and allow 
     funds to be transferred from one specified activity to 
     another with prior approval of the Committees on 
     Appropriations, as proposed by the Senate. The House had no 
     similar provision.
       The conferees request a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations from FDA on FDA's plans to promulgate 
     regulations to prevent cross-contamination of foods by 
     undeclared allergens. The report is due March 1, 2002, 
     instead of December 31, 2001, as proposed by the House.
       The conferees direct the Secretary of Health and Human 
     Services to submit a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations on the administration of the National 
     Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) by May 1, 
     2002, instead of March 1, 2002, as proposed by the House. 
     This report should include a breakout of all FDA funds 
     allocated to NARMS, other funding sources, overhead costs, 
     and the activities of the NARMS program, including 
     interagency agreements and interactions with non-
     governmental institutions.
       The conferees expect that FDA will continue its work with 
     the Interstate Shellfish Sanitary Commission (ISSC) to 
     promote educational and research activities related to 
     shellfish safety in general, and Vibrio vulnificus in 
     particular. The conference agreement directs the use of 
     $250,000 for this effort from within sums provided for food 
     safety, the same amount proposed by the House and instead of 
     $200,000 as proposed by the Senate. In addition, the 
     conferees direct that the FDA continue to devote not less 
     than $200,000 to its efforts in working with the ISSC on 
     assuring the safety and quality of shellfish and development 
     of shellfish regulations, as proposed by the House.
       The conference agreement includes a requirement for a 
     report on shellfish safety goals, due to the Committees on 
     Appropriations by December 1, 2002, instead of by March 1, 
     2002 as proposed by the Senate.
       The conferees direct that at least $2,100,000 of the funds 
     appropriated for FDA activities be used in support of Codex 
     Alimentarius activities, as proposed by the Senate.
       The conferees provide $1,000,000, from within the funds for 
     food safety, to analyze risks associated with biotech foods 
     used for animal feeds, as proposed by the Senate.
       The conferees are aware that a small but growing percentage 
     of the population is allergic to latex. While many 
     individuals sensitized to latex may never experience 
     symptoms, severe reactions may be lethal. The FDA states in 
     the 1999 Food Code--Annex 3 that there have been reports of 
     individuals experiencing an allergic reaction from eating 
     food prepared by food handlers wearing latex gloves. Given 
     this, the conferees direct the FDA to report back within nine 
     months of the enactment of this Act on the incidence of latex 
     allergies related to food handling, FDA's monitoring of the 
     situation, and agency plans to eliminate exposure to latex 
     from food handling if data warrants such a decision. The 
     conferees also encourage FDA to consider adding latex to its 
     priority list of food allergens.
       The conferees are aware that FDA has proposed rules that 
     include a prohibition on pooling tissue from multiple donors, 
     but allow a waiver under certain circumstances. According to 
     the FDA, these rules are designed to ``prevent the 
     introduction, transmission, and spread of communicable 
     diseases.'' The conferees believe that FDA should only 
     consider granting waivers from the pooling prohibition if it 
     can be demonstrated that the products are as safe, pure, and 
     potent as tissue products that have been processed without 
     pooling. The conferees urge the agency to continue to 
     encourage medical and technological innovation, and to employ 
     a balanced, science-based process to evaluate applications 
     for waivers, with the ultimate goal of ensuring patient 
     safety. The conferees direct FDA to provide the Committees on 
     Appropriations with quarterly reports on the status of such 
     waivers.
       The conferees are aware that FDA has never issued Current 
     Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) regulations for medical 
     oxygen and other medical gases despite the fact that the 
     agency intended to do so in 1978. The conferees are concerned 
     that FDA's interpretation of CGMP requirements pertaining to 
     the validation of Air Separation Units (ASUs) would benefit 
     from more extensive comment from, and interaction with, the 
     regulated industry. Therefore, the conferees strongly 
     encourage FDA to develop draft guidance on medical gas CGMPs 
     that addresses ASU validation requirements and to report to 
     the Committees on Appropriations regarding the status of 
     these guidelines within six months of the enactment of this 
     Act. The guidance development process should be fully 
     consistent with the agency's good guidance practices and 
     should allow for extensive industry input and interaction. In 
     addition, FDA would be expected to address and respond to 
     each significant comment received as it would in a rulemaking 
     process.
       The conferees note that the Food and Drug Administration 
     has received a petition requesting the promulgation of a new 
     standard of identity for yogurt. The conferees agree that the 
     petition should be given full consideration and request the 
     agency to submit a status report on this matter by June 1, 
     2002.
       The conferees strongly encourage FDA to make the 
     availability of safe, effective animal drugs a priority for 
     the agency. FDA should focus on reviewing animal drug 
     applications in a timely, efficient manner with high quality 
     standards. The conferees urge the agency to take action to 
     meet statutory time frames for animal drug application review 
     and to report on its performance to the Committees on 
     Appropriations prior to the fiscal year 2003 appropriations 
     hearings.
       Consistent with its continuing interest in the appropriate 
     labeling of irradiated food products, the conferees direct 
     the FDA to report to the Committees on Appropriations by 
     February 1, 2002, on the outcome of recent focus groups 
     regarding the labeling of irradiated food products and to 
     report on how the results will be integrated into future 
     rulemaking decisions.
       The conferees are familiar with concerns that have been 
     expressed regarding the impact of regulations promulgated by 
     the Food and Drug Administration (21 CFR Sec. 203.39) on free 
     health care clinics. The conferees encourage the agency to 
     continue its review of the regulations' impacts and direct 
     the agency to include a status report on this matter when it 
     submits its budget request for the next fiscal year.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                  Commodity Futures Trading Commission

       The conference agreement provides $70,700,000 for the 
     Commodity Futures Trading Commission as proposed by the House 
     instead of $70,400,000 as proposed by the Senate.

                     TITLE VII--GENERAL PROVISIONS

       House and Senate Section 707.--The conference agreement 
     (Section 707) does not include the phrase ``commonly known as 
     the Agricultural Act of 1954'' as proposed by the Senate.
       House and Senate Section 712.--The conference agreement 
     includes language (Section 712) that allows the Local 
     Television Loan Guarantee program to remain available

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     until expended to cover obligations made in fiscal year 2002 
     as proposed by the Senate and technical corrections as 
     proposed by the House.
       House Section 714.--The conference agreement does not 
     include a provision allowing the Natural Resources 
     Conservation Service to enter into cooperative agreements as 
     proposed by the House. This provision was made permanent in 
     P.L. 106-387.
       House Section 723 and Senate Section 722.--The conference 
     agreement includes language (Section 722) regarding 
     limitations on the Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food 
     Systems as proposed by the House.
       House Section 725 and Senate Section 726.--The conference 
     agreement (Section 725)
     includes ``Food and Drug Administration'' in the title of the 
     Appropriations Subcommittee as proposed by the House.
       House Section 727 and Senate Section 729.--The conference 
     agreement (Section 728) provides $2,496,000 for hunger 
     fellowships instead of $4,000,000 as proposed by the House 
     and $1,996,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       House Section 728 and Senate Section 730.--The conference 
     agreement includes permanent language (Section 729) allowing 
     the deposit of credit card refunds and rebates in the Working 
     Capital Fund as proposed by the House.
       House Section 730.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 731) regarding authorization for the 
     National Sheep Industry Improvement Center as proposed by the 
     House.
       House Section 731.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 732) regarding limitations on issuing a 
     proposed rule modifying the Animal Welfare Act.
       House Section 732.--The conference agreement (Section 733) 
     makes Cabot, AR, Coachella, CA, and Berlin, NH, eligible for 
     Rural Community Advancement Program grants and loans.
       House Section 733.--The conference agreement (Section 734) 
     makes Casa Grande, AZ as meeting the requirements of a rural 
     area in section 520 of the Housing Act of 1949 as proposed by 
     the House.
       Senate Section 732.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 735) that provides authority for the 
     Secretary to use up to $5,000,000 of funds made available 
     under section 27(a) of the Food Stamp Act for administrative 
     costs for the distribution of commodities as proposed by the 
     Senate.
       Senate Section 733.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 736) that allows the Secretary to transfer 
     up to $13,000,000 for technical assistance to implement the 
     Conservation Reserve Program instead of $26,000,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       House Section 734 and Senate Section 734.--The conference 
     agreement (Section 737) makes the City of St. Joseph, MO, 
     eligible for grants and loans administered by the rural 
     development mission area as proposed by the Senate.
       House Section 735.--The conference agreement (Section 738) 
     makes Hollister, CA as meeting the requirements of a rural 
     area for grants and loans administered by the Rural Housing 
     Service as proposed by the House.
       Senate Section 735.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 743) that extends the eligibility of 
     private organizations to participate in the Child and Adult 
     Care Food Program as proposed by the Senate.
       House Section 736.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 739) regarding prohibition of funds for 
     check-off program as proposed by the House.
       Senate Section 736.--The conference agreement (Section 744) 
     provides $150,000 for the Mallard Pointe project in Madison 
     County, MS as proposed by the Senate.
       House Section 737 and Senate Section 724.--The conference 
     agreement includes language (Section 740) that prohibits the 
     use of funds to close or relocate certain FDA offices in St. 
     Louis, Missouri.
       Senate Section 737.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 745) directing the Secretary to develop and 
     implement a pilot project in the Illinois basin as proposed 
     by the Senate.
       House Section 738 and Senate Section 725.--The conference 
     agreement includes language (Section 724) prohibiting the use 
     of funds to reduce staff levels at certain FDA offices in 
     Detroit, Michigan, below the July 31, 1999, levels as 
     proposed by the Senate instead of July 31, 2000, levels as 
     proposed by the House.
       Senate Section 738.--The conference agreement (Section 746) 
     provides $250,000 for a wetlands restoration and water 
     conservation project.
       House Section 739.--The conference agreement (Section 741) 
     provides $75,000,000 for market loss payments for apple 
     producers.
       Senate Section 739.--The conference agreement (Section 747) 
     provides $3,000,000 of the Rural Community Advancement 
     Program for a grant for an integrated ethanol plant, feedlot, 
     and animal waste digestion unit as proposed by the Senate.
       Senate Section 740.--The conference agreement provides 
     permanent language (Section 748) instructing the 
     Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service to use the 
     authorities of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to 
     finance the acquisition of electricity in predominantly rural 
     areas as proposed by the Senate.
       House Section 741.--The conferees do not include a House 
     provision prohibiting the use of funds to eliminate two river 
     navigator positions. The conference agreement, however, does 
     include $204,000 under the Natural Resources Conservation 
     Service, Conservation Operations account, fully funding those 
     positions.
       Senate Section 741.--The conference agreement does not 
     include language (Section 749) regarding marketing of raw 
     cane sugar or beet sugar as proposed by the Senate.
       House Section 742.--The conference agreement does not 
     include language that decreases by $6,000,000 the amount that 
     can be spent pursuant to section 524(a) of the Federal Crop 
     Insurance Act and increases the amount for the Watershed and 
     Flood Prevention Operations account.
       Senate Section 742.--The conference agreement (Section 750) 
     provides not to exceed $400,000 from available Emergency 
     Watershed Protection Program funds in Arkansas to complete 
     the current construction phase of the Kuhn Bayou Project as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       House Section 743.--The conference agreement does not 
     include language prohibiting the use of funds to enforce 
     section 801(g) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
       Senate Section 743.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 751) regarding Secure Rural Schools and 
     Community Self-Determination Act of 2000.
       House Section 744.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 742) prohibiting the use of funds from 
     being available to any person or entity that has been 
     convicted of violating the Buy American Act as proposed by 
     the House.
       Senate Section 744.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 752) that amends the Housing Act of 1949.
       House Section 745.--The conference agreement does not 
     include language that reduces the Agriculture Buildings and 
     Facilities and Rental Payments account and increases the 
     Elderly Feeding Program.
       Senate Section 745.--The conference agreement includes 
     permanent language (Section 753) making West Virginia State 
     College eligible to receive funds under the Act of August 30, 
     1890 as proposed by the Senate.
       House Section 746.--The conference agreement does not 
     include language that increases the salaries and expenses of 
     the Food and Drug Administration.
       Senate Section 746.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 754) making financial and technical 
     assistance relating to the Tanana River as proposed by the 
     Senate.
       House Section 747.--The conference agreement does not 
     include language regarding the responsibilities of the Food 
     and Drug Administration with respect to section 505(j) of the 
     Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act or section 314.53(b) of 
     title 21, Code of Federal Regulations. However, the conferees 
     are concerned that the U.S. patent law allows pharmaceutical 
     manufacturing companies to obtain additional patents for 
     drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration and 
     submitted for listing in the Approved Drug Products with 
     Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations, or Orange Book, for 
     changes to their products that, on the merits, may not 
     justify the resulting high pharmaceutical costs to consumers.
       The conferees note that U.S. patent law is not within the 
     Appropriations this Committees' jurisdiction. In addition, 
     the FDA has little expertise or responsibility in the field 
     of patent determinations. The conferees also note that the 
     Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is doing a study on 
     pharmaceutical industry practices relating to the Hatch-
     Waxman Act. The conferees do believe that additional 
     information on this subject would be helpful to those with 
     oversight responsibilities in this area, and request the 
     Secretary of Health and Human Services to instruct the Food 
     and Drug Administration to work with the FTC and provide a 
     report on this subject to the Committees on Appropriations of 
     the House and Senate within 8 months after completion of the 
     FTC report. The report should provide information on FDA's 
     evaluation of the FTC findings.
       In addition, the conferees direct the Secretary to report 
     to the Committees by March 1, 2002, on the best methods to 
     collect and disseminate information on the nature of patent 
     extensions that have been granted on products appearing in 
     the Orange Book, the effect those extensions would have on 
     costs to consumers and a societal cost/benefit analysis in 
     regard to such extensions.
       Senate Section 747.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 755) prohibiting the use of funds to the 
     Food and Drug Administration to allow the admission of fish 
     or fish products labeled as ``catfish'' unless they are from 
     the family Ictaluridae as proposed by the Senate.
       Senate Section 748.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 756) that authorizes the Secretary to 
     accept any unused funds that were transferred to the Alaska 
     Railroad Corporation and retransfer such funds as a direct 
     lump sum payment to the City of Valdez as proposed by the 
     Senate.
       Senate Section 749.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 757) providing not more than $5,000,000 of 
     funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to pay claims of 
     crop damage that resulted from the Bureau of Land 
     Management's use of herbicides during the 2001 calendar year.
       Senate Section 750.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 758) regarding a pilot program for 
     enrollment of wetland and buffer acreage in conservation 
     reserve as proposed by the Senate.
       Senate Section 751.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 759) regarding tobacco and horses.
       Senate Section 752.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 760) making sweet potatoes eligible for 
     crop insurance.

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       Senate Section 753.--The conference agreement does not 
     include a provision that requires the Secretary of 
     Agriculture to submit a reprogramming request to address 
     tornado damage at the Beltsville Agricultural Research 
     Center. The conferees expect the Secretary to assess the 
     funding requirements for repair and/or replacement of damaged 
     or destroyed facilities, and to take appropriate action to 
     assure that facilities needs are met.
       Senate Section 754.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 761) that extends the date for citrus 
     canker eradication payments as proposed by the Senate.
       Senate Section 755.--The conference agreement does not 
     include language regarding Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome. 
     The conferees encourage the Secretary to use the APHIS 
     contingency fund to combat Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome in 
     Kentucky.
       Senate Section 756.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 762) that allows the Secretary to make 
     grants to state agencies for use by regulatory commissions in 
     states with rural communities without local dial-up Internet 
     access or broadband service to establish a competitively, 
     technologically neutral grant program.
       Senate Section 757.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 763) regarding the Farmland Protection 
     Program as proposed by the Senate.
       Senate Section 758.--The conference agreement (Section 764) 
     makes the City of Caldwell, ID, eligible for grants and loans 
     administered by the Rural Housing Service as proposed by the 
     Senate.
       Senate Section 759.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 765) that amends the Agriculture Marketing 
     Agreement Act of 1937 as proposed by the Senate.
       Senate Section 760.--The conference agreement includes 
     language (Section 766) that amends the Richard B. Russell 
     National School Lunch Act as proposed by the Senate.
       Senate Section 761.--The conference agreement does not 
     include language regarding West Nile Virus. The conferees 
     encourage the Secretary to use the APHIS contingency fund to 
     combat West Nile Virus in Illinois.
       Senate Section 762.--The conference agreement (Section 767) 
     makes the City of Mt. Vernon, WA, eligible for grants and 
     loans administered by the Rural Housing Service as proposed 
     by the Senate.
       Section 768.--The conference agreement provides that 
     Watershed and Flood Prevention Operation funds shall be 
     available for technical and financial assistance to implement 
     the Ferry Creek Mainstream Watershed Plan in DuPage County, 
     Illinois.
       Section 769.--The conference agreement provides that 
     Watershed and Flood Prevention Operation funds shall be 
     available for technical and financial assistance for a lake 
     level stabilization project in Burnett and Washburn Counties, 
     Wisconsin.
       Section 770.--The conference agreement includes language 
     that makes any current Rural Utilities Service borrower 
     within 100 miles of New York City eligible for additional 
     financing, refinancing, collateral flexibility, and deferrals 
     for telecommunications, energy or water projects.
       Section 771.--The conference agreement includes language 
     that amends section 17(r)(5) of the Richard B. Russell 
     National School Lunch Act.
       Section 772.--The conference agreement includes language 
     that amends section 141 of the Agricultural Market Transition 
     Act.
       Section 773.--The conference agreement includes language 
     that authorizes the Secretary to transfer refined sugar to 
     the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Co-op.
       Section 774.--The conference agreement includes language 
     regarding tobacco.
       Section 775.--The conference agreement includes language 
     that amends the Competitive, Special, and Facilities Research 
     Grant Act.
       Section 776.--The conference agreement includes language 
     that limits the program authorized by section 524(a) of the 
     Federal Crop Insurance Act to a total of $4,000,000 in fiscal 
     year 2002.
       Section 777.--The conference agreement amends language that 
     amends section 501 of the Agricultural Trade Development and 
     Assistance Act of 1954.

                   CONFERENCE TOTAL--WITH COMPARISONS

       The total new budget (obligational) authority for the 
     fiscal year 2002 recommended by the Committee on Conference, 
     with comparisons to the fiscal year 2001 amount, the 2002 
     budget estimates, and the House and Senate bills for 2002 
     follow:

                       [In thousands of dollars]

New budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year 2001.......$76,659,577
Budget estimates of new (obligational) authority, fiscal year73,976,108
House bill, fiscal year 2002.................................74,359,843
Senate bill, fiscal year 2002................................75,797,465
Conference agreement, fiscal year 2002.......................75,794,443
Conference agreement compared with:
  New budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year 2001........-865,134
  Budget estimates of new (obligational) authority, fiscal ye+1,818,335
  House bill, fiscal year 2002...............................+1,434,600
  Senate bill, fiscal year 2002..................................-3,022

     Henry Bonilla,
     James T. Walsh,
     Jack Kingston,
     Tom Latham,
     Jo Ann Emerson,
     Virgil H. Goode, Jr.,
     Ray LaHood,
     C.W. Bill Young,
     Marcy Kaptur,
     Rosa L. DeLauro,
     Maurice D. Hinchey,
     Sam Farr,
     Allen Boyd,
     David R. Obey,
                                Managers on the Part of the House.

     Herb Kohl,
     Tom Harkin,
     Byron L. Dorgan,
     Dianne Feinstein,
     Richard J. Durbin,
     Tim Johnson,
     Robert C. Byrd,
     Thad Cochran,
     Arlen Specter,
     Christopher S. Bond,
     Mitch McConnell,
     Conrad Burns,
     Larry Craig,
     Ted Stevens,
     Managers on the Part of the Senate.

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